02350cam a2200289 4500 2357477785 TxAuBib 20140221120000.0 131028s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013040588 9781451645811 1451645813 (OCoLC)853310397 DNAL/DLC eng AGL DLC YDXCP BTCTA BDX IEP BUR ZHB TxAuBib Leonard, Christopher, 1975- The meat racket [BOOK] : the secret takeover of America's food business / Christopher Leonard. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014. 370 p. ; 24 cm. IIncludes bibliographical references (p. 325-351) and index. Part 1: "Things are born, things die". How Jerry Yandell lost the farm (2003-2004) ; The Eden crash (1929-1958) ; Expand or expire (1960-1967) ; The industrial animal (1970-1995) ; Cage match (2004-2012) -- Part 2: The great chickenization. Pig cities (1973-1994) ; The next generation (1995-2006) ; Squeal (1996-2011) ; Pulling the noose (2011) ; The food dictatorship (1994-2006) -- Part 3: Tyson's pride. The transition team (2007-2011) ; Street fight (2010-2011) ; Don's horizon (2011-2012). 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 21st 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. These companies are even able to raise meat prices for consumers while pushing down the price they pay to farmers. 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.--From publisher description. 20140221. Tyson (Firm.) Meat industry and trade United States. Investigative reporting.