Podcasts Culture Point of Inquiry Factory Farming and the Meat Racket: Christopher Leonard on our Irrational Meat Industry

Factory Farming and the Meat Racket: Christopher Leonard on our Irrational Meat Industry

Published: Sept. 17, 2014, 4:08 p.m.

It\u2019s National Chicken Month! But rather than celebrating the consumption of fowl, Point of Inquiry is asking what exactly is going on in America's meat industry? Is the way we consume meat at all rational?\xa0\n\xa0\n\n\n\nJoining us this week is\xa0Christopher Leonard, investigative journalist whose work has appeared in\xa0Fortune,\xa0Slate, and\xa0The New York Times. He is a fellow with The New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute in Washington, DC., and the\xa0author of\xa0The Meat Racket:\xa0The Secret Takeover of America\u2019s Food Business.\n\xa0\n\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa0\nLeonard and host Josh Zepps explore the morality of super-industrialized meat production, the iron grip of certain large corporations, and how the centralized system of factory farming is, to Leonard, \u201cSoviet-esque.\u201d