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. HarperCollins.

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     Ted Genoways served as the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review from 2003 to 2012, during which time the magazine won six National Magazine Awards. He is a contributing editor at Mother Jones and an editor-at-large at OnEarth, and is a winner of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. He is a fourth-generation Nebraskan and lives in Lincoln.

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A powerful and important work of investigative journalism that explores the runaway growth of the American meatpacking industry and its dangerous consequences

“A worthy update to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and a chilling indicator of how little has changed since that 1906 muckraking classic.” — Mother Jones

“I tore through this book. . . . Books like these are important: They track the journey of our thinking about food, adding evidence and offering guidance along the way.” —Wall Street Journal

On the production line in American packing-houses, 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, often dangerous quality.

In The Chain, acclaimed journalist Ted Genoways uses the story of Hormel Foods and its most famous product, Spam—a recession-era staple—to probe the state of the meatpacking industry, from Minnesota to Iowa to Nebraska. Interviewing scores of line workers, union leaders, hog farmers, and local politicians and activists, Genoways reveals an industry pushed to its breaking point—while exposing alarming new trends, from sick or permanently disabled workers to conflict between small towns and immigrant labor. A searching exposé in the tradition of Upton Sinclair, Rachel Carson, and Eric Schlosser, The Chain is a mesmerizing story and an urgent warning about the hidden costs of the food we eat.

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     "Ted Genoways has crafted an unflinching, intimate portrait of America's industrialized meat system, centered on pork but conveying lessons that go beyond it. The Chain is a must-read for anyone concerned with our nation's food system, and the phenomenal cost—animal, human, and environmental—of cheap meat." — Tracie McMillan, author of The American Way of Eating

     "An exhaustive examination of this industry. . . . Readers curious about meatpacking and agriculture as well as the social, economic, and environmental impacts of the food industry will find Genoways's nonfiction debut a valuable and stimulating read." — Library Journal (starred review)

     "A searing indictment . . . [Genoways] writes with passion and a sense of mission . . . He should get people thinking about the trade-offs that the public makes in return for low-cost meat." — Associated Press

     "Formidably researched and vividly told, The Chain is the definitive story of American pork. Ted Genoways intercuts intimate portraits of towns and factories with longer views of labor, business, and immigration history, making painfully clear the true cost of the 'other white meat.'" — Ted Conover, author of The Routes of Man

     "A muckraker for our times, Ted Genoways goes behind the scenes in the meatpacking industry and shows us how the sausage is really made—and the Spam, too. But he doesn't stop there, because The Chain is also an insightful chronicle of a changing American heartland, and of lives trampled in the headlong rush to industrialize the food system. Upton Sinclair would surely approve." — Dan Fagin, Pulitzer-prize winning author of Toms River

     "A worthy update to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and a chilling indicator of how little has changed since that 1906 muckraking classic." — Mother Jones

     "A disturbing exposé . . . Genoways makes a compelling case that the meatpacking industry's relentless drive for higher output poses a threat to food safety." — Minneapolis Star Tribune

     "A scathing report on the consequences of factory farming. . . . A sad, horrifying story, a severe indictment of both corporate greed and consumer complacency." — Kirkus Reviews

     "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." — Publishers Weekly

     "The Chain [is an] important [book], well worth reading, full of compelling stories, genuine outrage and the careful exposure of corporate lies." — New York Times Book Review

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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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     From the farms where livestock is raised to the packing plant where meat is processed for human consumption to the grocery aisles and eventually our tables, the American meatpacking industry is a complex and massive system. Using the example of Hormel Foods and Quality Pork Processors, investigative journalist Genoways (Mother Jones) provides readers with an exhaustive examination of this industry, shedding light on how it has evolved and expanded to embrace change, demand, and innovation. Accessibly written chapters are broken down by subject, and content is sometimes reiterated for a fuller picture. Topics include the history of Hormel and labor unions, the potential socioeconomic and health effects of working on the meatpacking floor, animal rights and the economic risks farmers face raising hogs for slaughter, local resistance to immigrant labor in the industry, government regulation and inspections, disease outbreak concerns, and more. Helpful notes and some small photos are included. VERDICT Readers curious about meatpacking and agriculture as well as the social, economic, and environmental impacts of the food industry will find Genoways's nonfiction debut a valuable and stimulating read.--Jennifer Harris, Southern New Hampshire Univ. Lib., Manchester

     Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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“A worthy update to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and a chilling indicator of how little has changed since that 1906 muckraking classic.” — Mother Jones

“I tore through this book. . . . Books like these are important: They track the journey of our thinking about food, adding evidence and offering guidance along the way.” —Wall Street Journal

On the production line in American packing-houses, 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, often dangerous quality.

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