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  • A group of men wearing aprons, dining on beef steaks at a dinner event.

    When Did Cheap Meat Become an “Essential” American Value?

    Keeping meat production moving during the pandemic is dangerous. But history shows that there’s little Americans won’t sacrifice for a cheap steak.
    by Rebecca Onion, Joshua Specht via Slate on May 14, 2020
  • Cattle in a stockyard.

    The Price of Plenty: How Beef Changed America

    Exploitation and predatory pricing drove the transformation of the beef industry – and created the model for modern agribusiness.
    by Joshua Specht via The Guardian on May 7, 2019
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Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America
Joshua Specht
2019

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Cattle being funneled onto a train at a stockyard.

The Price of Meat

America’s obsession with beef was born of conquest and exploitation.
by Samuel Moyn via The New Republic on May 7, 2019
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