{"product_id":"kill-and-chill-ian-maclachlan-9780802078322","title":"Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chain","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoth horrified and fascinated by a visit with his geography students to the Canada Packers Lethbridge plant, Ian MacLachlan searched for a book that would explain the main features of the Canadian meat packing industry. Finding very little available, he set about writing an account of the industry that is both an economic geography and economic history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComprehensive in its treatment of the whole system surrounding the Canadian beef industry, Kill and Chill offers a history of the structural changes in Canada's cattle and beef commodity chain, beginning with calf production and cattle feeding on farms and feedlots. It goes on to describe the changes in cattle marketing, the historical development of meatpacking-in particular the emergence of Canada's 'Big Three' meatpacking firms-and the rise of meatpacking unionism. Carrying the story almost to the present with the takeover of Maple Leaf by the McCain family in the mid-1990s, the work concludes with a discussion of current trends in retail beef marketing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian MacLachlan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080207832X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802078322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.22w x 1.18d","brand":"Ian MacLachlan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448697368831,"sku":"9780802078322","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5afc3ef7-b3ca-4102-aede-a00857f97423.jpg?v=1777260077","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kill-and-chill-ian-maclachlan-9780802078322","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}