{"id":5731,"date":"2014-04-09T08:56:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T15:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2018-10-23T14:00:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T21:00:43","slug":"new-in-nonfiction-the-meat-racket-the-secret-takeover-of-americas-food-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/new-in-nonfiction-the-meat-racket-the-secret-takeover-of-americas-food-business\/","title":{"rendered":"New in Nonfiction: The Meat Racket &#8211; The Secret Takeover of America\u2019s Food Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2014\/04\/book_meatRacket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5734\" alt=\"book_meatRacket\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2014\/04\/book_meatRacket.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>It may seem like we have all the choices in the world here in the United States, particularly when it comes to the food we purchase and eat.\u00a0 Christopher Leonard\u2019s new book, however, exposes this consumer choice for what it really is: an illusion.\u00a0 No matter what it is; chicken wings, fillet mignon, or pepperoni, it\u2019s likely to have come from one of four companies.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard exposes the industry, delivering a first-ever account of how a few companies have come to dominate the nation\u2019s meat supply, by forcing smaller farmers to the edge of bankruptcy, and charging high prices to American consumers in this shockingly illuminating account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may seem like we have all the choices in the world here in the United States, particularly when it comes to the food we purchase and eat.\u00a0 Christopher Leonard\u2019s new book, however, exposes this consumer choice for what it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/new-in-nonfiction-the-meat-racket-the-secret-takeover-of-americas-food-business\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-reading-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5736,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions\/5736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}