The price of plenty: how beef changed America | Environment | The Guardian

The long read: Exploitation and predatory pricing drove the transformation of the US beef industry – and created the model for modern agribusiness

"Beef was a paradigmatic industry for the rise of modern industrial agriculture, or agribusiness. As much as a story of science or technology, modern agriculture is a compromise between the unpredictability of nature and the rationality of capital...

The long read: Exploitation and predatory pricing drove the transformation of the US beef industry – and created the model for modern agribusiness

"Beef was a paradigmatic industry for the rise of modern industrial agriculture, or agribusiness. As much as a story of science or technology, modern agriculture is a compromise between the unpredictability of nature and the rationality of capital...