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Slaughterhouse blues : the meat and poultry industry in North America / Donald D. Stull, Michael J. Broadway ; with a foreword by Eric Schlosser.
Penn Museum Library HD9415 .S78 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stull, Donald D.
- Series:
- Case studies on contemporary social issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meat industry and trade--United States.
- Meat industry and trade.
- Slaughtering and slaughter-houses.
- United States.
- Meat industry and trade--Canada.
- Canada.
- Slaughtering and slaughter-houses--United States.
- Slaughtering and slaughter-houses--Canada.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 172 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, [2004]
- Summary:
- SLAUGHTERHOUSE BLUES: THE MEAT AND POULTRY INDUSTRY IN NORTH AMERICA draws on more than 15 years of research by the authors, a cultural anthropologist and a social geographer, to present a detailed look at the meat and poultry industry in the United States and Canada. Following chapters on today's beef, poultry, and pork industries, SLAUGHTERHOUSE BLUES examines industry impacts on workers and on the communities that host its plants. The book details the authors' efforts to help communities plan for and mitigate the negative consequences of meat and poultry plants as well as community opposition to confined animal feeding operations. The book concludes by exploring alternatives to North America's model of industrialized meat production.
- Contents:
- The Tour 1
- Studying the Meat and Poultry Industry
- and Why 4
- Chapter 1 Setting the Table 9
- More Inputs, Fewer Farms 10
- Eat In or Eat Out? 11
- Agricultural Industrialization 12
- Consequences of Agricultural Industrialization for the Meat and Poultry Industry 15
- Chapter 2 From Roundups to Restructuring: The Beef Industry 22
- A Branding on the Flying V 22
- The Cattle Kingdom 27
- Home on the Range: The Short, Happy Life of a Beef Cow 29
- Go West, Young Steer, Go West 32
- From Hogsheads to Disassembly Lines: The Rise of the Meatpacking Industry 32
- Beefpacking Moves to the Country: Relocating and Restructuring the Industry 35
- Chapter 3 Chicken Little, Chicken Big: The Poultry Industry 36
- Down on the Farm 36
- Poultry Production and Consumption in the Early Twentieth Century 36
- Mrs. Steele's Chicks: The Birth of the Modern Poultry Industry 38
- Industrializing, Integrating, and Marketing the Chicken 39
- Contract Growing and Factory Farming 41
- Big Chicken Comes to Roost in Kentucky 42
- Old MacDonald Takes a Factory Job: How Chickens Are Grown 43
- The Sky Is Falling 48
- Chapter 4 Hog Heaven: The Pork Industry 52
- The Essence of Pig 54
- The Road to Porkopolis 55
- Hog Heaven or Hell? 57
- Miss Piggy's New Frontiers 60
- Chapter 5 The Human Price of Our Meat 65
- The Jungle 65
- "On to Organize" 69
- "It Don't Pay Great" 73
- On the Line 75
- "A Lot of People Leave" 79
- Chapter 6 On the Floor at Running Iron Beef 82
- The Walkout 82
- Anthropologists in The Jungle 82
- Managing Running Iron Beef 83
- Corporate and Work Cultures at Running Iron Beef 87
- Cultural and Language Differences 95
- Our Final Report and Its Impact 96
- Chapter 7 Garden City, Kansas: Trophy Buckle on the Beef Belt 99
- The World's Largest Beef Plant and Beefpacking's Golden Triangle 99
- The Fastest Growing Town in Kansas 100
- The Changing Relations Project 101
- Will It Ever Settle Down? Garden City, 1980-2000 103
- Twenty Years after the Packers Came to Town 113
- Garden City's Future 114
- Chapter 8 Don't Shoot the Messenger: Technical Assistance to Packinghouse Towns 117
- The Pliancy Factor 118
- Community Development Models 119
- Hope for the Best and Prepare for the Worst 120
- Community Study Teams: The Ideal and the Real 124
- What Can Host Communities Do, and When Must They Do It? 126
- The Way Forward 131
- Chapter 9 Not in My Backyard: Community Opposition to the Meat and Poultry Industry 133
- Western Kentucky's Tour de Stench 134
- The Sierra Club Takes on Big Chicken 136
- The Future of Farming in Western Kentucky 137
- A Fight Lost, A Fight to Be Won: Big Pig in Alberta 138
- Let the Match Recommence 139
- The Decision and Its Aftermath 143
- Not in My Backyard, Reprise 144
- Chapter 10 Food for Thought 146
- There's Plenty More Where That Came From 147
- There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch 149
- Meat Me in the Legislature 151
- Meat Me in Court 152
- Sustainable Agriculture in Western Europe 154
- It's Better Down Under! 155
- Voting with Your Stomach 155
- The Meat and Poultry Industry: History Repeated? 157.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-169) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0534613039
- OCLC:
- 52289945
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