![]() ![]() Important, timely, and explosive, The Meat Racket is an unvarnished portrait of the food industry that now dominates America’s heartland. ![]() And you’ll even see how big business and politics have derailed efforts to change the system, from a years-long legal fight in Iowa to the Obama administration’s recent failed attempt to pass reforms. ![]() You’ll discover how these companies are able to raise meat prices for consumers while pushing down the price they pay to farmers. You’ll learn how the food industry got to where it is today, and how companies like Tyson have escaped the scrutiny they deserve. Leonard’s revealing account shines a light on the inner workings of Tyson Foods, a pioneer of the industrial system that dominates the market. Now he delivers the first comprehensive look inside the industrial meat system, exposing how a handful of companies executed an audacious corporate takeover of the nation’s meat supply. How much do you know about the meat on your dinner plate? Journalist Christopher Leonard spent more than a decade covering the country’s biggest meat companies, including four years as the national agribusiness reporter for the Associated Press. An investigative journalist takes you inside the corporate meat industry-a shocking, in-depth report every American should read. ![]()
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![]() The only redeeming quality of the book, for me, was the information about wolves. The "surprise" ending was so poorly done that it was truly unbelievable. If there weren't names at the beginning of each chapter, I would have said this was a first person omnicient narrator.įurthermore, the plot was at times contrived and at other times wholly unrealistic. In this novel however, the voices of each character were so similar as to be indistinguishable from one another. One of my favorite things about reading a novel by Picoult is her use of voice. The characters were underdeveloped, the voices stagnant, and the plot unrealistic. To me, it feels like she just didn't have enough time to really get at the heart of the novel. It was one of those books that you read 150 pages in, decide you don't really like the book, but feel like you have to finish it just because you've already put so much effort into reading it. Not only was this book not enjoyable, it was physically painful to read. For the most part, you would never be able to tell they are written so quickly. ![]() When I've read or listened to interviews she's given, I am always amazed that she writes all of her novels in about 9 months. I'm always excited to see when she's written something new and can't wait for it to come into print. I've read 13 of them, most of which were thoroughly enjoyable (with only a couple of notable exceptions-Songs of the Humpback Whale for one). ![]() ![]() Let me start by saying, I love Jodi Picoult's novels. ![]() ![]() Now, to stay alive she’ll have to depend on one of Dragath’s own. But when her shuttle crashes and the majority of her crew perish, her simple mission becomes complicated fast. Earn the credits necessary to save her family from starvation. A tale of unbridled desire, stunning sacrifice, and unwavering love, Trapped is the first book in The Condemned Series.Ĭadet Bella West has one simple objective when she joins the scientific mission to Dragath25, the notorious penal planet housing Earth’s condemned. But what starts out as a desperate trade based on protection and raw lust soon blossoms into a scorching need that will push them both to the edge. ![]() When Bella West crash lands on penal planet Dragath25, the only thing standing between her and a mass of brutal criminals is one of their own, a ruthless loner known only as 673. HIS RULES… Trapped by Alison Aimes is an action-packed, sexy sci-fi that takes you to the brink of oblivion on a planet where only the strong survive. ![]() ![]() But just as she’s about to leave, Miri is ordered on an urgent mission - she must journey to a distant swamp and start a princess academy for three sisters, cousins of the royal family. She’s been away for a year, and can’t wait to return. “The Forgotten Sisters” opens as Miri is about to return to her home on Mount Eskel. Once there, they help the future Princess Britta prepare for her wedding, and Miri attends school at the Queen’s Castle. Following her time in the Academy, Miri and some of her friends from the Princess Academy are sent from their beloved Mount Eskel to Asland, the royal city. ![]() There, Miri gained knowledge she didn’t know existed, and that knowledge ignited a thirst for learning. ![]() Miri’s story began when she was sent to the Princess Academy. Nothing makes this clearer than “The Forgotten Sisters,” which came out at the end of February. “Princess Academy” will always be magical unto itself, but there’s a thread of magic that binds all three novels together. But it did, creating a fan base that’s not likely to ease up anytime soon. ![]() When Shannon Hale published “Princess Academy” in 2005, she probably had no idea that it would go on to win major honors let alone spawn not one, but two follow-up books - “ Palace of Stone” (2012) and “The Forgotten Sisters” (2015). “PRINCESS ACADEMY: THE FORGOTTEN SISTERS,” by Shannon Hale, Bloomsbury USA Children’s, Feb. ![]() ![]() Make priorities and work for 90 minutes or more. Pick your favorite one of those three and then do that. Don’t start with reading the Bible, running, and journaling. Vanderkam suggests that you channel your energies into one change at a time – choose a habit your are excited about first. ![]() We are like machines, rolling through the well-worn grooves of life, and your excitement is not going to be enough to bounce you from those tracks. When you start ‘redoing’ your mornings, afternoons, work schedules or whatever, it’s going to take time. Repetition (takes time) for betters mornings (or anything else). Here are the four takeaways from this book: 1. I’ve also discovered good ideas from Vanderkam’s other book, 168 Hours, and thought about how my time is spent in the mornings and what I really want to get done. I’ve also borrowed from Bruce Feiler, who suggests to give kids autonomy for getting their own things done. I’ve borrowed from Jeffery Gitomer, who says that the day really begins the night before and our daughters lay their clothes, breakfasts, and bags out before going to bed. Mornings at our house have gotten to be pretty smooth. ![]() I had listened to this audiobook once before and chose it again because it’s a short selection of advice and suggestions for not only a better morning, but a better anything. I recently finished a second reading/listening of Laura Vanderkam’s What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast. ![]() ![]() Over the past week, wildfires burnt more than 400,000 hectares (1,550 square miles), and forced almost 30,000 people out of their homes. "So I don't think we can let our guard down."Īlberta is the largest cattle producing region in Canada, with almost five million head of cattle, according to government data.ĭotted with open ranges and rolling plains in the shadow of the majestic Rocky Mountains, it has been used as a backdrop for Westerns such as Oscar winners Unforgiven and Brokeback Mountain. "There're still hot spots and, you know, I don't think we're out of danger yet," he said, sporting a days-old beard and a cowboy hat. "It's pretty scary stuff when fire's that close to your home." The blaze that threatened his farm was powerful, he told AFP. ![]() Smoke now billows from piles of burnt trees on his wooded lot west of the provincial capital Edmonton. Paddocks that usually hold up to 1,000 cows sit empty and a haze of smoke has reduced visibility to less than five meters (16 feet).įuchs and his son managed to evacuate his herd before the wildfires jumped a nearby river and arrived at his doorstep. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His research appeared in four books: The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo, and Wild Talents. He worked for 27 years at the British Museum and the New York Public Library gathering material on phenomena from the borderlands between science and fantasy. These are the -damned, - by which the late Charles Ford meant all the wide range of mysteries that are ignored by orthodox science or explained away improperly. How can we answer reports of strange animals, disappearances of men from open sight, curious structures in the snow, talents like teleportation and telekinesis?. How can we account for all the inexplicable astronomical observations that have been made in the past? What is the explanation of falls of frogs, falls of fishes, falls of seagulls, which have been recorded from time to time? are the various objects seen in the sky evidences of their visits? ![]() Did beings from outer space visit earth in the past. ![]() |