Summary: How a small cartel of meat food companies have monopolized the meat industry at the expense of farmers and consumers pocketbooksChristopher Leonard is the former national agribusiness reporter for the Associated Press and currently a Schmidt Family Foundation fellow at the Washington public policy institute The New America Foundation. He investigative reports have been published in Fortune, Slate, the New York Times and other media outlets. He is the author of “The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business” which follows the history of a few companies taking control of America’s entire meat industry and profiting off it at the expensive of farmers and consumers
