CHAIN: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food - Brossura

Genoways, Ted

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ISBN 10: 0062288768 ISBN 13: 9780062288769

Casa editrice: HarperPb, 2015

Riassunto

An acclaimed journalist 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, and expose such alarming trends as pollution, abused animals and more. 25,000 first printing.

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“A muckraker for our times, Ted Genoways goes behind the scenes in the meatpacking industry and shows us how the sausage is really made... An insightful chronicle of a changing American heartland, and of lives trampled in the headlong rush to industrialize the food system. Upton Sinclair would surely approve.” (Dan Fagin, Pulitzer-prize winning author of Toms River)

“Ted Genoways has crafted an unflinching, intimate portrait of America’s industrialized meat system, centered on pork but conveying lessons that go beyond it. The Chain is a must-read for anyone concerned with our nation’s food system, and the phenomenal cost―animal, human, and environmental―of cheap meat.” (Tracie McMillan, author of The American Way of Eating)

“An exhaustive examination of this industry. . . . Readers curious about meatpacking and agriculture as well as the social, economic, and environmental impacts of the food industry will find Genoways’s nonfiction debut a valuable and stimulating read.” (Library Journal (starred review))

“A searing indictment . . . [Genoways] writes with passion and a sense of mission . . . He should get people thinking about the trade-offs that the public makes in return for low-cost meat.” (Associated Press)

“Formidably researched and vividly told, The Chain is the definitive story of American pork. Ted Genoways intercuts intimate portraits of towns and factories with longer views of labor, business, and immigration history, making painfully clear the true cost of the ‘other white meat.’” (Ted Conover, author of The Routes of Man)

“A scathing report on the consequences of factory farming....Genoways...shows that little has changed in more than 100 years....[He] tells a sad, horrifying story, a severe indictment of both corporate greed and consumer complacency.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Comparable to Sinclair’s classic expose, The Jungle, Genoways’s blistering account of the meatpacking industry makes the case for tighter monitoring of this powerful sector of American agribusiness.” (Publishers Weekly)

“A disturbing exposé . . . Genoways makes a compelling case that the meatpacking industry’s relentless drive for higher output poses a threat to food safety.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

“A scathing report on the consequences of factory farming. . . . A sad, horrifying story, a severe indictment of both corporate greed and consumer complacency.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“...a worthy update to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and a chilling indicator of how little has changed since that 1906 muckraking classic.” (Mother Jones)

L'autore:

Ted Genoways served as the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review from 2003 to 2012, during which time the magazine won six National Magazine Awards. He is a contributing editor at Mother Jones and an editor-at-large at OnEarth, and is a winner of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. He is a fourth-generation Nebraskan and lives in Lincoln.

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• Editore: HarperPb
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0062288768
• ISBN 13: 9780062288769
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320