What's For Dinner?

Tonight's Guest: Christopher Leonard - The Meat Racket (Part 1) Whether or not US farming is profitable today depends on a lot more than hard work. Today's show explores what's decisive for poultry farmers - contract terms between them and the corporations they raise bird for. Once Christopher Leonard learned how contracts with Tyson Foods bankrupts and breaks the spirits of Arkansas poultry farmers, he spent nearly a decade to research and tell their stories. Farmers don't control the quality of the birds they get or the food they're supplied, but they do go into debt for the physical plant to raise them. Christopher says he dream now is for people to understand what vertical integration means, and he explains it with examples you wont forget.