The Meat You Eat: Corporate Farming and the
Decline of the American Diet
Ken Midkiff
240 pages, softcover $23.95
St. Martin’s
Press, 2004
Midkiff shows us the ugly underbelly of
industrialized meat production: “Mad cow” disease scares, farm
animals shot full of massive doses of hormones and antibiotics, and
giant farms producing giant amounts of waste. What’s a
conscientious carnivore to do? Demand that your meat come from a
local, sustainable grower. As Wendell Berry writes in the
conclusion to this book, “Eating is an agricultural act.”
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline The Meat You Eat: Corporate Farming and the Decline of the American Diet.
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