can Historical Review (February ): –; and McWhiney,Cracker Culture.My
exposition here is based especially on Ted Ownby,Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation,
and Manhood in the Rural South, –(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, ).
. On fairs, demonstration, and home demonstration agents’ work and influence,
in addition to Ownby,Subduing Satan, , –, see Lu Ann Jones,Mama Learned Us
to Work: Farm Women in the New South(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
), esp. –. The vignette on Hertford Co., N.C., is from Kirby,Poquosin,–,
and the Ham and Eggs movement is from Kirby,Rural Worlds Lost, .
. On farm women as producer-marketers during the s and s, see Deb-
orah Fink,Agrarian Women: Wives and Mothers in Rural Nebraska, –(Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ), chaps. and , and esp. Jones,Mama
Learned Us to Work,–.
. On the chicken business from the s to ca. , see Kirby,Rural Worlds Lost,
–, and, more recently, William Boyd, ‘‘Making Meat: Science, Technology, and
American Poultry Production,’’Technology and Culture (October ): –.
. Farmer quoted on p. in Michael Specter, ‘‘The Extremist,’’NewYorker, April
, , –, –, esp. – on contemporary Delmarva chicken farming; this
chapter’s second epigraph appears on p. . In addition, an excellent summary of the
treatment of animals during the past three decades is Peter Singer, ‘‘Animal Liberation
at ,’’New York Review of Books, May , –; comparisons of U.S. and Euro-
pean Union regulations on .
. Donald G. McNeil Jr., ‘‘KFC Supplier Accused of Animal Cruelty: Rights Group
to Release Film Showing Chickens Being Abused,’’New York Times,July.
. On Tyson, see David Barboza, ‘‘Chicken Well Simmered in a Political Stew: Tyson
Fosters Ties to Officials but Is Unable to Avoid Scrutiny,’’New York Times, January
. On processing plants and labor, see Deborah Fink,Cutting into the Meatpacking
Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest(Chapel Hill: University of North Caro-
lina Press, ), and Leon Fink,The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the
Nuevo New South(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ).
. On the Chesapeake and oysters, see John J. Alford, ‘‘The Role of Management in
Chesapeake Oyster Production,’’Geographical Review ( January ): –, and esp.
John R. Wennersten,The Chesapeake: An Environmental Biography(Baltimore: Mary-
land Historical Society, ), esp. chap. . (The observation on Indiana oyster con-
sumption and shell paths is my own, supplemented by the recollections of the late
Carrie B. Boggs [b. ] of Salem, Ind.)
. See Rodney Barker,And the Waters Turned to Blood(New York: Simon and Schus-
ter, ), an investigative journalist’s account of Burkholder’s ordeal; William J. Broad,
‘‘In a Sealed Lab, a Warrior against Pollution,’’New York Times, March , the
Science Times profile of Burkholder; and on the growth of industrial swine culture,
Michael D. Thompson, ‘‘High on the Hog: Swine as Culture and Commodity in East-
ern North Carolina’’ (Ph.D. diss., Miami University, ), esp. pt. .
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