By Jeremy Bernfeld
NPR - December 09, 2013
The meat on your dinner table probably didn't come from a happy
little cow that lived a wondrous life out on rolling green hills. It
probably also wasn't produced by a robot animal killer hired by an evil
cabal of monocle-wearing industrialists.
Truth is, the meat
industry is complicated, and it's impossible to understand without a
whole lot of context. That's where Maureen Ogle comes in. She's a
historian and the author of In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America.
Ogle's
book examines the pipeline that meat takes today from field to table by
trying to understand its roots. She starts all the way back in Colonial
America, when settlers found so much available land that they were able
to raise livestock they could never have afforded in Europe. Meat, Ogle
writes, became a status symbol in early America.
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