SLAUGHTERHOUSE BLUES: THE MEAT AND POULTRY INDUSTRY IN NORTH AMERICA draws on more than 15 years of research by the authors, a cultural anthropologist and a social geographer, to present a detailed look at the meat and poultry industry in the United States and Canada. Following chapters on today's beef, poultry, and pork industries, SLAUGHTERHOUSE BLUES examines industry impacts on workers and on the communities that host its plants. The book details the authors' efforts to help communities plan for and mitigate the negative consequences of meat and poultry plants as well as community opposition to confined animal feeding operations. The book concludes by exploring alternatives to North America's model of industrialized meat production.

Excerpt from The Poultry Industry of the United States of America: A Special Report Supplementing the Exhibit of the United States Department of Agriculture at the Fourth World's Poultry Congress, London, 1930 The poultry industry of the United States is a widely distributed and diversified activity. Poultry products are more universally produced than any other agricultural product. Over one-third of the total poultry population of the world is to be found in the United States, there being about five fowls raised annually for every person, which is a much higher proportion than in most other countries. There are very few farms that do not have a small flock of poultry, and thousands of small flocks are kept in the small yards of homes in towns and villages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.