Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America (Histories of Economic Life)
By Joshua Specht.
Description
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 industr...
ISBN(s)
0691182310, 9780691182315
