I've covered chicken in the past: students in my class will have watched either Supersize Me 2 (an entertaining film by a director with a checkered past) or Eating Animals. Both talk about the difficult conditions faced by chicken farmers working for the big names in chicken like Tyson or Perdue.
This week's article is about how control over the beef industry by meat processors is leading to profits for the meat packers at the expense of farmers. Such is modern capitalism: keep growing until you have a large enough market share to mess with people, and then do so....
