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Genoways, Ted.
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Hormel Foods Corporation.
Meat industry and trade -- United States.
Food processing plants -- United States.
Factory farms.
Industrial safety.
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The chain : farm, fa...
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The chain : farm, factory, and the fate of our food / Ted Genoways.
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Genoways, Ted.
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, c2014.
Subjects
Hormel Foods Corporation.
Meat industry and trade -- United States.
Food processing plants -- United States.
Factory farms.
Industrial safety.
ISBN:
9780062288752 (hbk.)
006228875X (hbk.)
Description:
xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Pt. 1. The brain machine -- Have a cup of coffee and pray -- Alter egos -- pt. 2. Little Mexico -- They threw me away like trash -- This land is not your land -- pt. 3. From seed to slaughter -- Don't be afraid to hurt them -- Ag gag -- pt. 4. I thought it was fishy -- You are not welcome -- Brother, are you okay? -- pt. 5. A clean bill of health -- Lay of the land -- Water works -- pt. 6. The city of no -- Inspection.
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Ted Genoways uses the story of Hormel Foods and soaring recession-era demand for its most famous product, Spam, to probe the state of the meatpacking industry, including the expansion of agribusiness and the effects of immigrant labor on Middle America.
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Hilo Public Library
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338.76649 Gennoways
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