![]() ![]() Leonard is an evocative writer, and if disintegrating chickens don’t do you in, learning about a growth hormone called Zilmax, which Tyson used until about a year ago to make cattle “blow up like muscled balloons,” just might turn you vegetarian. It was like they were unraveling from the inside at a heated speed.” “They fell apart to the touch, legs sloughing off the body. “Their bodies were like soft, purple balloons by the time gathered them,” Leonard writes. ![]() The baby chicks delivered to them by the giant Tyson Foods began dying in bulk. The first chapter, titled “How Jerry Yandell Lost the Farm,” is about a couple trying to make a living farming chickens. That is, until I began reading “The Meat Racket” by Christopher Leonard. ![]() I was ravenous and quite grateful for my chicken salad. In late January, I was flying home from San Diego. Bethany McLean is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a co-author of “All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis.” ![]()
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