Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America’s Favorite Food (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

Great read. Packed full of valuable insight into the underbelly of America’s poultry industry.

This is a ringing indictment of factory chicken farming! I was turned on to the Yale Agrarian Studies Series by Scott Siskind's review of another book by the series editor. The author of Chicken delves into the chicken business with a fervor that echoes Upton Sinclair, explaining how Big Chicken gained its current location, and shines light on the plight of the involved participants, both the nursery owners and processing workers. This book has personally steered me towards eating more beef, which is raised in a much more kind way to the animals involved, and also steered me towards buying pasture raised eggs and even considering having my own hen in my backyard so I know how she is being treated.

A harsh indictment of the aggressive tactics of the poultry giants, Striffler's work gives a grim view of the consequences for farmer, worker, and consumer. This book can be enjoy equally by activist, academician, and voracious reader all equally. Imminently readable, Striffler's work not only conveys a sense of the author's ideology but more importantly, backs up his concerns with hard and fast statistics.Even for those who don't wish to endure a frontal assault on Tyson Foods and other major agribusiness corporations, the discussion on how American consumerism around chicken has changed over the last 20 years. For those who are old enough to remember a world without McNuggets, its an interesting cultural retrospective.

Chicken tells you more than you thought you wanted to know about what we eat and buy. But after reading it you are hungry for opportunities to do something about the situation Striffler lays out so compellingly. Nuggets of wisdom about nuggets of poor nutrition but high profits reaped from unconscionably high suffering.

I'm not for sure about this book. I got it for my daughter for her college classes that she sent me a list of books she needs for the up coming semester in the Summer for her Winter classes. I'm guessing she likes it. She getting good grades in the class and hasn't said anything to me about any problems with the book.She did tell me a lot about this book and class talks in the classroom. It got her to rethink about eating and the class wasn't about that LOL but it help her to rethink about other things that the class was teaching too.

I needed this book by next week, but it got here a week earlier than expected, it's in good condition and is a fairly new book. This will be educational and interesting.

Great text for the anthropologist! I am writing my dissertation on immigrant labor and would love to find more sources like this! Great!

Read this for a school paper, it wasn't disgusting but I will choose my chicken carefully now. Thanks for the heads up.