by Josh Berson From the publisher: Humans are eating more meat than ever. Despite ubiquitous Sweetgreen franchises and the example set by celebrity vegans, demand for meat is projected to […]
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Podcast: American Beef Economy of late 19th century
A 49 minute podcast interview with Joshua Specht, author of Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beed Changed America. Specht describes the entire “beef economy” of the nineteenth […]
Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America
by Joshua Specht From the publisher: 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 […]
Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business
by Christopher Leonard From the publisher: An investigative journalist takes you inside the corporate meat industry—a shocking, in-depth report every American should read. The American supermarket seems to represent the best […]
In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America
by Maureen Ogle From the publisher: The untold story of how meat made America: a tale of the self-made magnates, pragmatic farmers, and impassioned activists who shaped us into the greatest eaters […]