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Chicken : the dangerous transformation of America's favorite food
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ISBN: 1281730068 9786611730062 0300128169 9781281730060 9780300128161 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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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 indictment of our industrial food system. The process of bringing chicken to our dinner tables is unhealthy for all concerned-from farmer to factory worker to consumer. The book traces the development of the poultry industry since the Second World War, analyzing the impact of such changes as the destruction of the family farm, the processing of chicken into nuggets and patties, and the changing makeup of the industrial labor force. The author describes the lives of immigrant workers and their reception in the small towns where they live. The conclusion is clear: there has to be a better way. Striffler proposes radical but practical change, a plan that promises more humane treatment of chickens, better food for the consumer, and fair payment for food workers and farmers.


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Hamlet fire
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ISBN: 9798890852991 1469661381 9781469661384 9781469661377 1469661373 1469660261 9781469660264 Year: 2020 Publisher: Chapel Hill

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The Hamlet Fire : a tragic story of cheap food, cheap government, and cheap lives
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ISBN: 1620972395 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York ; London : The New Press,

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The Maya of Morganton
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ISBN: 0807854476 0807827746 080786241X 9780807862414 9780807827741 9780807854471 9798890876874 Year: 2003 Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina Press

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The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina poultry plant sets the stage for this story of human struggle in an age of globalization. The author follows what happened when concerns about fairness and safety sparked a strike and an unlikely coalition.

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