It’s easy to think that there is some big company lurking in the shadows getting in trouble for what they did and while that may or may not be true, what is real, is the lives of the people not only affected by the disease caused by the listeria outbreak, but also the lives of the workers that made the ice cream, who are now out of a job.
Big Meat: The indie butcher business grows up – Quartz.
It turns out the challenge facing the meat business doesn’t come from the consumer side. Americans like meat. They didn’t need a primal food craze to convince them of that. But in places where the animals don’t come with a provenance, the butchery trade doesn’t attract new entrants because the labor economics just plain suck.
Here’s another example of the changing landscape in food production, distribution and development.
Some easy to understand videos of how food is grown:
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