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The chain
Ted Genoways · 2014 · 313 pages
Factory farmsIndustrial safetyHormel Foods CorporationMeat industry and tradeFood processing plantsNew York Times reviewed
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About this book
Ted Genoways 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.
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