What's For Dinner?

Tonight's Guest: Christopher Leonard - The Meat Racket (Part 2) The Meat Racket author Christopher Leonard reports on the "chickenization" of poultry and meat producers' farm and ranching operations. Christopher's business journalism in the Midwest took him to small towns where he saw poultry and hog farms and beef feedlots going out of business. He was witnessing emergence of what he calls "broken markets" and an almost feudal relationship between growers and owners of big meat companies. Listen to him describe the real facts behind the graying of rural America, as well as the couple years when he thought things might change, what happened instead, where his hopes for the future lie, and the risk that increasing proportions of supermarket meat will be imported.