Resultados para "Meat" en Negocios y profesiones

Ever wondered how “factory farms” came to be, why chicken nuggets were invented, or where the idea of feeding hormones and antibiotics to livestock came from in the first place? The Price of Plenty offers answers that may surprise you, in a compulsively listenable and distinctly American tale of abundance, invention, and exceptionalism. Historian Maureen Ogle unfolds the good, the bad, and the ugly behind the nation’s meat-making infrastructure, from colonial cattle wars to the rise of Swift, Armour, and Tyson to today’s alt-cuisine.

Raising chickens is a fun adventure for a beginning or experienced chicken farmer to embark upon. In doing so, you’ll increase your overall health and have a lot of fun doing so. However, it does require some basic research, and this book will provide you with everything you need to know, so you can start raising chickens.

Three powerful men converge on the banks of the Red Cedar River in the early 1900s in southern Minnesota—George Albert Hormel, founder of what will become the $10 billion food conglomerate Hormel Foods; Alpha LaRue Eberhart, the author's paternal grandfather and Hormel's executive vice president and corporate secretary; and Ransome Josiah Thomson, Hormel's comptroller. Over ten years, Thomson will embezzle $1.2 million from the company's coffers, nearly bringing the company to its knees.

For decades, it has been nearly universal dogma among environmentalists and health advocates that cattle and beef are public enemy number one. But is the matter really so clear? Hardly, argues environmental lawyer turned rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman in her new book, Defending Beef. The public has long been led to believe that livestock, especially cattle, erode soils, pollute air and water, damage riparian areas, and decimate wildlife populations. In Defending Beef, Hahn Niman argues that cattle are not inherently bad for either the Earth or our own nutritional health.

Looking for a profitable, low-space livestock business? Frog farming is one of the fastest-growing niche agricultural opportunities—and this book shows you exactly how to do it. How to Farm Frogs is a complete beginner-to-advanced guide to frog farming for frog legs meat production. Written in clear, practical language, this book walks you step by step through breeding, rearing, feeding, harvesting, processing, storage, and selling frog legs legally and profitably.

Looking for a practical, step-by-step guide to raising rabbits successfully? How to Farm Rabbits is a comprehensive rabbit farming manual that covers everything you need to know—from choosing the right breeds and building affordable housing to feeding, breeding, disease prevention, humane meat production, and starting a rabbit farming business.

Homeless. Addicted. Alone. Ron Worley hit rock bottom, but climbed his way back and into money, a successful business, and fulfillment. Now, he is helping others do the same. Negative circumstances can overshadow a life of purpose. Making the brave hard choices can seem impossible. Yet, you don’t have to accept mediocrity. Your growth is your choice. If trauma and failure have set you adrift, it’s time to step up with Ditches to Riches.

This three-part audiobook is about everything you will ever want to know about spam. In Part I, I look at all of the different kinds of "unsolicited commercial messages" and how our tolerances for each vastly differs from total acceptance to $50,000 fines for the same type of message. In Part II, Gary Thuerk, the Father of Email, tells his story how the world's first spam email message was sent. Part III of the audiobook delivers the actual email message itself, the very first spam message. And there's even a section in here that will explain how spam became know as...spam!

A shocking and unputdownable exposé of the United States meat industry and the corruption driving it that “is required reading for anyone who eats” (Christopher Leonard, New York Times bestselling author). Years of consolidation, price-fixing, and power grabs by elite industry insiders have...

Few consumers are aware of the economic forces behind the production of meat, fish, eggs, and dairy. Yet omnivore and herbivore alike, the forces of meatonomics affect us in many ways. Most importantly, we've lost the ability to decide for ourselves what - and how much - to eat. Those decisions are made for us by animal food producers who control our buying choices with artificially-low prices, misleading messaging, and heavy control over legislation and regulation.

Wie Fleischersatz erst den Supermarkt erobert hat und bald die ganze Welt ernährt. Noch vor zehn Jahren wurde Fleischersatz als teure Obsession in Reformhäusern und Bioläden gehandelt. Heute gehören vegetarische und vegane Produkte zum Mainstream. Maßgeblich beteiligt an dieser Entwicklung...