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The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business
Simon & Schuster
February 2015
On Sale: February 24, 2015
384 pages
ISBN: 1451645813
EAN: 9781451645811
Kindle: B00DX0F4J6
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Non-Fiction
The biggest takeover in American business that you’ve
never heard of < The American supermarket seems to represent the best in
America: abundance, freedom, choice. But that turns out to
be an illusion. The rotisserie chicken, the pepperoni, the
cordon bleu, the frozen pot pie, and the bacon virtually all
come from four companies. In The Meat Racket, investigative reporter
Christopher Leonard delivers the first-ever account of how a
handful of companies have seized the nation’s meat supply.
He shows how they built a system that puts farmers on the
edge of bankruptcy, charges high prices to consumers, and
returns the industry to the shape it had in the 1900s before
the meat monopolists were broken up. At the dawn of the
twenty-first century, the greatest capitalist country in the
world has an oligarchy controlling much of the food we eat
and a high-tech sharecropping system to make that possible. Forty years ago, more than thirty-six companies produced
half of all the chicken Americans ate. Now there are only
three that make that amount, and they control every aspect
of the process, from the egg to the chicken to the chicken
nugget. These companies are even able to raise meat prices
for consumers while pushing down the price they pay to
farmers. And tragically, big business and politics have
derailed efforts to change the system. We know that it takes big companies to bring meat to the
American table. What The Meat Racket shows is that
this industrial system is rigged against all of us. In that
sense, Leonard has exposed our heartland’s biggest scandal.
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