Food production

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How U.S. meat industry has protected itself by cost-cutting

Ketchup revolutionized way food is grown, processed and regulated in the U.S.

Podcast: American Beef Economy of late 19th century

The chicken experiment that radically changed meat production

The passage in “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair that sickened America in 1906

Books of Interest

Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States

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Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas

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Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Columbia, 1899-2000

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Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats

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Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America’s Favorite Food

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Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives

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In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America

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Meat Question: Animals, Humans, and the Deep History of Food

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Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business

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Our Daily Poison: From Pesticides to Packaging, How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain and Are Making Us Sick

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Plucked! The Truth About Chicken

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Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean

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Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America

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