Food Investigation: Methods of the five packers in controlling the meat industry
Food Investigation: Methods of the five packers in controlling the meat industry

Author: United States. Federal Trade Commission

Publisher:

Published: 1919

Total Pages: 1044

ISBN-13:

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Summary and part I (June 24, 1919) -- pt. II. Evidence of combination among packers (1918) -- pt. III. Methods of the five packers in controlling the meat-packing industry (June 28, 1919) -- pt. IV. The five larger packers in produce and grocery foods (June 30, 1919) -- pt. V. Profits of the packers (1920) -- pt. VI. Cost of growing beef animals ; cost of fattening cattle ; cost of marketing live stock (December 1919-1920).

Red Meat Republic
Red Meat Republic

Author: Joshua Specht

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0691209189

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"By the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with cattle bred on ranches in the rural West, slaughtered in Chicago, and consumed in the nation's rapidly growing cities. Red Meat Republic tells the remarkable story of the violent conflict over who would reap the benefits of this new industry and who would bear its heavy costs"--