Chicken : the dangerous transformation of America's favorite food

Chicken : the dangerous transformation of America's favorite food / Steve Striffler.

Anthropologist Steve Striffler begins this book in a poultry processing plant, drawing on his own experiences there as a worker. He also reports on the way chickens are raised today and how they are consumed. What he discovers about America's favorite meat is not just unpleasant but a powerful...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Striffler, Steve, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005.
Series:Yale agrarian studies.
Subjects:
McDonald's Corporation.
McDonald's Corporation
Chicken industry > United States > History.
Poultry plants > United States > History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Food Science.
Chicken industry
Poultry plants
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I.A new bird
  • 1. Love that chicken!
  • 2. An American industry
  • 3. Anatomy of a merger
  • 4. The right to work
  • pt. II. A new worker
  • 5. Getting here
  • 6. Inside a poultry plant
  • 7. Growing pains
  • 8. Toward a friendlier chicken.

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