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ability,  970 –  0  4 ,” ERS, January  0  7 , EIB- 66 , 6 , https://www.ers.usda.gov
/webdocs/publications/ 8  0 /eib- 66 .pdf?v= 4  76 .
 3. the space allocated is small: Michael Ruhlman, Grocery: The Buying
and Selling of Food in America (New York: Harry N. Abrams,  0  7 ), Kindle
edition, – 6.
 4. one pound more per week: “Data: Meat Consumption,” Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),  0  6 , accessed
March  9 ,  0  8 , https://data.oecd.org/agroutput/meat-consumption.htm.
. control of most meat animals: James MacDonald, “Concentration,
Contracting, and Competition Policy in U.S. Agribusiness,” Concurrences no. 
( 0  6 ): 3 – 9 , http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/ 478  97 / 7 /Lianos 03 % 0 concurrences

•  0  6 _on_topics_lianos_et_al.pdf.
   6. 15 percent added slurry: “Fact Sheet—Lean Finely Textured Beef,”
  National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, accessed March  9 ,  0  8 , http://www
  .beefusa.org/CMDocs/BeefUSA/Resources/LFTB% 0 Fact% 0 Sheet.pdf.
   7. Terms of the settlement: Timothy Mclaughlin, “ABC TV Settles
  with Beef Product Maker in ‘Pink Slime’ Defamation Case,” Reuters,
  June  8 ,  0  7 , https://www.reuters.com/article/us-abc-pinkslime-idUSKBN 9
  
  JW 9.
   8. inclusion is a minor cost: Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes
  within Us and a Grander View of Life (New York: ECCO,  0  6 ),  4.
   9. rejected all of them: Ibid.; M. B. Katan, “Why the European Food
  Safety Authority Was Right to Reject Health Claims for Probiotics,” Beneficial
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  30. grew by only 2 percent: NASS, “Milk Cows, Milk Productions,” Febru-
  ary ,  0  8 , https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Milk_Production
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  3 . cows die or are culled: Albert De Vries, “Cow Longevity Economics:
  The Cost Benefit of Keeping the Cow in the Herd,” in Proceedings of Cow
  Longevity Conference, Hamra Farm/Tumba, Sweden, August  8 –  9 ,  0  3 ,  3 ,
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  3 . requiring certain nutrients: USDA, “What Foods Are in the Grains
  Group?” ChooseMyPlate.gov, last modified November 3 ,  0  7 , https://www
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  33. products made of mostly white flour: Jeanine Bentley, “U.S. Trends
  in Food Availability and a Dietary Assessment of Loss-Adjusted Food Avail-
  ability,  790 –  0  4 ,” ERS, EIB- 66.
  34. more extravagant the health claims: Marion Nestle, What to Eat (New
  York: North Point Press,  006 ), Kindle edition,  8.