| Contents |
Series Foreword -- Foreword / Eric Schlosser -- Preface -- Introduction (starting p. 1) -- The Tour (starting p. 1) -- Studying the Meat and Poultry Industry -- and Why (starting p. 4) -- Chapter 1 Setting the Table (starting p. 9) -- More Inputs, Fewer Farms (starting p. 10) -- Eat In or Eat Out? (starting p. 11) -- Agricultural Industrialization (starting p. 12) -- Consequences of Agricultural Industrialization for the Meat and Poultry Industry (starting p. 15) -- Conclusions (starting p. 20) -- Chapter 2 From Roundups to Restructuring: The Beef Industry (starting p. 22) -- A Branding on the Flying V (starting p. 22) -- The Cattle Kingdom (starting p. 27) -- Home on the Range: The Short, Happy Life of a Beef Cow (starting p. 29) -- Go West, Young Steer, Go West (starting p. 32) -- From Hogsheads to Disassembly Lines: The Rise of the Meatpacking Industry (starting p. 32) -- Beefpacking Moves to the Country: Relocating and Restructuring the Industry (starting p. 35) -- Chapter 3 Chicken Little, Chicken Big: The Poultry Industry (starting p. 36) -- Down on the Farm (starting p. 36) -- Poultry Production and Consumption in the Early Twentieth Century (starting p. 36) -- Mrs. Steele's Chicks: The Birth of the Modern Poultry Industry (starting p. 38) -- Industrializing, Integrating, and Marketing the Chicken (starting p. 39) -- Contract Growing and Factory Farming (starting p. 41) -- Big Chicken Comes to Roost in Kentucky (starting p. 42) -- Old MacDonald Takes a Factory Job: How Chickens Are Grown (starting p. 43) -- The Sky Is Falling (starting p. 48) -- Chapter 4 Hog Heaven: The Pork Industry (starting p. 52) -- The Essence of Pig (starting p. 54) -- The Road to Porkopolis (starting p. 55) -- Hog Heaven or Hell? (starting p. 57) -- Miss Piggy's New Frontiers (starting p. 60) -- Chapter 5 The Human Price of Our Meat (starting p. 65) -- The Jungle (starting p. 65) -- "On to Organize" (starting p. 69) -- "It Don't Pay Great" (starting p. 73) -- On the Line (starting p. 75) -- "A Lot of People Leave" (starting p. 79) -- Chapter 6 On the Floor at Running Iron Beef (starting p. 82) -- The Walkout (starting p. 82) -- Anthropologists in The Jungle (starting p. 82) -- Managing Running Iron Beef (starting p. 83) -- Corporate and Work Cultures at Running Iron Beef (starting p. 87) -- Cultural and Language Differences (starting p. 95) -- Our Final Report and Its Impact (starting p. 96) -- Chapter 7 Garden City, Kansas: Trophy Buckle on the Beef Belt (starting p. 99) -- The World's Largest Beef Plant and Beefpacking's Golden Triangle (starting p. 99) -- The Fastest Growing Town in Kansas (starting p. 100) -- The Changing Relations Project (starting p. 101) -- Will It Ever Settle Down? Garden City, 1980-2000 (starting p. 103) -- Twenty Years after the Packers Came to Town (starting p. 113) -- Garden City's Future (starting p. 114) -- Chapter 8 Don't Shoot the Messenger: Technical Assistance to Packinghouse Towns (starting p. 117) -- The Pliancy Factor (starting p. 118) -- Community Development Models (starting p. 119) -- Hope for the Best and Prepare for the Worst (starting p. 120) -- Community Study Teams: The Ideal and the Real (starting p. 124) -- What Can Host Communities Do, and When Must They Do It? (starting p. 126) -- The Way Forward (starting p. 131) -- Chapter 9 Not in My Backyard: Community Opposition to the Meat and Poultry Industry (starting p. 133) -- Western Kentucky's Tour de Stench (starting p. 134) -- The Sierra Club Takes on Big Chicken (starting p. 136) -- The Future of Farming in Western Kentucky (starting p. 137) -- A Fight Lost, A Fight to Be Won: Big Pig in Alberta (starting p. 138) -- Let the Match Recommence (starting p. 139) -- The Decision and Its Aftermath (starting p. 143) -- Not in My Backyard, Reprise (starting p. 144) -- Chapter 10 Food for Thought (starting p. 146) -- There's Plenty More Where That Came From (starting p. 147) -- There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch (starting p. 149) -- Meat Me in the Legislature (starting p. 151) -- Meat Me in Court (starting p. 152) -- Sustainable Agriculture in Western Europe (starting p. 154) -- It's Better Down Under! (starting p. 155) -- Voting with Your Stomach (starting p. 155) -- The Meat and Poultry Industry: History Repeated? (starting p. 157) -- References (starting p. 159) -- Index (starting p. 170) |
