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The Price of Plenty: A History of Meat in America

By Maureen Ogle
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By Maureen Ogle
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Ever wondered how "factory farms" came to be, why chicken nuggets were invented, or where the idea of feeding hormones and antibiotics to livestock came from in the first place?

The Price of Plenty offers answers that may surprise you, in a compulsively readable and distinctly American tale of abundance, invention, and exceptionalism.

Historian Maureen Ogle unfolds the good, the bad, and the ugly behind the nation's meat-making infrastructure, from colonial cattle wars to the rise of Swift,...