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Red Meat Republic - A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America (Hardcover)
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Red Meat Republic - A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R584
Discovery Miles 5 840
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How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial
food complex By the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and
poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every
meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from
small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry
spanning the country, with cattle bred on ranches in the rural
West, slaughtered in Chicago, and consumed in the nation's rapidly
growing cities. Red Meat Republic tells the remarkable story of the
violent conflict over who would reap the benefits of this new
industry and who would bear its heavy costs. Joshua Specht puts
people at the heart of his story-the big cattle ranchers who helped
to drive the nation's westward expansion, the meatpackers who
created a radically new kind of industrialized slaughterhouse, and
the stockyard workers who were subjected to the shocking and
unsanitary conditions described by Upton Sinclair in his novel The
Jungle. Specht brings to life a turbulent era marked by Indian
wars, Chicago labor unrest, and food riots in the streets of New
York. He shows how the enduring success of the cattle-beef
complex-centralized, low cost, and meatpacker dominated-was a
consequence of the meatpackers' ability to make their interests
overlap with those of a hungry public, while the interests of
struggling ranchers, desperate workers, and bankrupt butchers took
a backseat. America-and the American table-would never be the same
again. A compelling and unfailingly enjoyable read, Red Meat
Republic reveals the complex history of exploitation and innovation
behind the food we consume today.
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