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Corporate Pig-Out: Meat Industry Consolidation
August 11, 1999
Listen/download helpAs consolidation within the meat and agriculture industries takes hold, some of the largest corporations in the world are fattening their bottom lines. Meanwhile, workers and farmers are losing out. On this program, we take a look at this trend.
Featuring:
Claire Hope Cummings, lawyer, journalist, food and farm editor at KPFA radio in Berkeley; Karen Hudson, Families Against Rural Messes (FARM); Rosemary Mucklow, National Meat Association; Michele Simon, journalist and attorney.
For more information:
Claire Cummings
Food and Farming Forum
P.O. Box 5124
Mill Valley, CA 94942
www.ccummings.org/fff.htm
Families Against Rural Messes
P.O. Box 615
Elmwood, IL 61529
309-742-8895; fax: 510-742-8055; khudson@elmnet.net
www.netins.net/showcase/megahoglaws
National Meat Association
1970 Broadway, Ste. 825
Oakland, CA 94612
510-763-1533; fax: 510-763-6186