Table of Contents
Introduction: A Pandemic Catalyst 1
Section I The Industrial Grip
Chapter 1 How Goliath Got So Big 17
Chapter 2 Consolidation of Power 24
Chapter 3 Monopsony Just Doesn't Have the Same Ring to It 33
Chapter 4 The Human Cost of Eating Meat 46
Chapter 5 The JBS Takeover of Americas Meat 60
Chapter 6 JBS Goes to Washington 78
Chapter 7 How Big Is Too Big? 88
Section II Challenging the Industrial Meat Status Quo
Chapter 8 How Climate Change Will Upend Industrial Meat 103
Chapter 9 The Threat of Antibiotic Resistance 116
Chapter 10 Meat's Accessibility Gap 127
Section III Alternative Challengers
Chapter 11 Can Climate Crisis Reform Meat? 139
Chapter 12 Breeding a Better Chicken through Feed and Genetics 158
Chapter 13 The Dumb Money Driving the Plant-Based Boom 169
Chapter 14 Will Meatless Meat Actually Help the Earth? 186
Chapter 15 Lab-Grown Power Grab 199
Chapter 16 Sourcing Local Alternatives 213
Section IV Maximizing What We've Got
Chapter 17 An Independent Slaughter 227
Chapter 18 Bracing 236
Acknowledgments 265
Notes 269
Index 323