The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food
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Ted Genoways. (2014). The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc.

Ted Genoways. 2014. The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food. Tantor Media, Inc.

Ted Genoways, The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food. Tantor Media, Inc, 2014.

Ted Genoways. The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc, 2014.

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On the production line in American packinghouses, there is one cardinal rule: the chain never slows. Under pressure to increase supply, the supervisors of meat-processing plants have routinely accelerated the pace of conveyors, leading to inhumane conditions, increased accidents, and food of questionable and often dangerous quality. In The Chain, acclaimed journalist Ted Genoways uses the story of Hormel Foods and its most famous product, Spam, to probe the state of the meatpacking industry. Interviewing scores of line workers, union leaders, hog farmers, and local politicians and activists, Genoways reveals an industry pushed to its breaking point. Along the way, he exposes alarming new trends: sick or permanently disabled workers, abused animals, water and soil pollution, and mounting conflict between small towns and immigrant labor.

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   • content: Michael Kramer's persuasive and unfaltering performance reinforces the disturbing information in this portrait of the American food industry. Kramer's articulate narration tempers the author's tone, offering mild intonations and a steadiness that balance the stark, and sometimes shocking, information. The author's point is that the food supply chain--which rewards high-density animal farming and increased speed at production plants--is compromising the safety of workers as well as the quality and wholesomeness of our meat. Kramer's good timing and clarity of voice clearly convey the shocking statistics and poignant message about the true price of cheap meat. M.F. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
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     September 1, 2014
     In this cautionary tale of a leading meat producer, the former editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review and contributing editor of Mother Jones delves into the inner workings of Hormel Foods, a company struggling to meet America’s insatiable hunger for hog products while keeping prices down. Hormel, with major plants in the nation’s heartland, keeps its conveyor belts operating full speed, processing all edible parts of the hog, including severed hog heads, sliced ears, clipped snouts, sliced cheek meat, and cut-out tongues. While hams, sausages, and Spam are processed at breakneck speed, Genoways discovered that the meatpacking giant often put profits over people, interviewing former and current workers, with fingers lost to saws or disabled by unrelenting illnesses. A medical team found plant workers wear little protective gear, which leaves them exposed to the inhalation of illness-causing aerosolized brain matter, but when sick employees filed for disability, they were rejected. Residents of town near Hormel plants also feel threatened by the company’s workers (largely illegal), as well as by water and soil contamination in small towns from plant runoff. Comparable to Sinclair’s classic expose, The Jungle, Genoways’s blistering account of the meatpacking industry makes the case for tighter monitoring of this powerful sector of American agribusiness.

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On the production line in American packinghouses, there is one cardinal rule: the chain never slows. Under pressure to increase supply, the supervisors of meat-processing plants have routinely accelerated the pace of conveyors, leading to inhumane conditions, increased accidents, and food of questionable and often dangerous quality. In The Chain, acclaimed journalist Ted Genoways uses the story of Hormel Foods and its most famous product, Spam, to probe the state of the meatpacking industry. Interviewing scores of line workers, union leaders, hog farmers, and local politicians and activists, Genoways reveals an industry pushed to its breaking point. Along the way, he exposes alarming new trends: sick or permanently disabled workers, abused animals, water and soil pollution, and mounting conflict between small towns and immigrant labor.

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