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What gets a steer from 80 to 1100 pounds in fourteen months is tremendous quantities of corn, protei...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

A mere four giant meatpacking companies (Tyson subsidiary IBP, Cargill subsidiary Excel, Swift & Com...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Every day between now and his slaughter in six months, 534 [Pollan's steer] will convert 32 pounds o...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

It was the same industrial logic- protein is protein- that made feeding rendered cow parts back to c...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The ratio of feed to flesh in chicken, the most efficient animal by this measure, is two pounds of c...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals