The Meat Racket

By Christopher Leonard,

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An investigative journalist takes you inside the corporate meat industry—a shocking, in-depth report every American should read.

How much do you know about the meat on your dinner plate? Journalist Christopher Leonard spent more than a decade covering the country’s biggest meat companies, including four years as the national agribusiness…

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1 author picked The Meat Racket as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book, in many ways, is the spiritual grandfather to my book. Christopher Leonard is a pioneer.

He went to a level of detail that no one had before. His deep investigation of Tyson Foods is a formative example of how corporations pick profits over their farmers and use their power to exert control over producers, workers, and suppliers. It has informed my research time and time again. 

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