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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgment -- 1 Grains for Food, Grains for Feed -- Differences in Grains -- How Differences in Grains Matter -- The Geopolitics of Grains -- Notes -- 2 Grains and the US Food Regime -- The US Food Regime and its Origins -- The Spread of the US Food Regime -- The Effects of the US Food Regime -- Notes -- 3 The Search for New Markets -- After the US Food Regime -- The Search for New Markets and Economic Conflict in Agriculture -- Notes -- 4 Feed Grains, Food Grains, and World Hunger -- World Hunger and Food Security

The author compares the trajectories of three U.S. policies from 1935 to 1952: the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), and the Social Security Act (SSA). Agricultural policy expanded beyond the New Deal, labor policy was severely weakened, and social security saw only minor changes. Why? Class coalitions strongly influenced the trajectories of these policies. The coalition supporting the AAA largely maintained, but the coalition supporting the NLRA collapsed. Support from southern planters was particularly important for each policy. Focusing on trajectories rather than merely policy formation more clearly demonstrates the influence of class coalitions over state policy.

The number of animals raised and slaughtered for food in the U.S. has increased dramatically since 1945. We examine how two factors have been fundamental in this expansion of "meat" consumption: the market and the state. U.S. agricultural policies that emerged form the New Deal centered on price supports and production controls. While these policies were aimed at controlling supply, they instead spurred intensive and industrial techniques that resulted in continuous overproduction, especially in corn, wheat and soybeans. As a result, farm organizations and the state promoted "meat" production and consumption as a way to alleviate the surplus. To handle this expansion, intensive and industrial methods reshaped "meat" production, resulting in more oppressive living conditions for animals raised as "meat". We explore this connection between the market, state policy and animal oppression. We also briefly analyze how this relationship has likewise affected workers and peripheral nations in the world economy.

This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years. It explores the complex interactions of class, market, and state as they have affected the formulation and application of agricultural policy decisions since the New Deal, showing how divisions and coalitions within Southern, Corn Belt, and Wheat Belt agriculture were central to the ebb and flow of price supports and production controls. In addition, the book highlights the roles played by the world economy, the civil rights movement, and existing national policy to provide an invaluable analysis of past and recent trends in supply management policy