Visualizing Consolidation in the Global Meat Processing Industry
Phil Howard
Wednesday, 10 Oct 2018 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Phil Howard is an associate professor in the Department of Community Sustainability at Michigan State University and the author of Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat? His research is focused on consolidation in food systems - from farming and processing to distribution and consumption – and he is also widely recognized for pictorial representations of food and agricultural data. He will discuss how government subsidies have played a role in increasing the power of the three largest meat processors worldwide and share data visualizations of changes in the industry's economic concentration. George M. Beal Distinguished Lecture in Rural SociologyPhil Howard holds a PhD in rural sociology from the University of Missouri. He conducted research at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from 2002 to 2006, and was a visiting scholar in the Division of Nutrition at the University of Utah in 2013-14.
Cosponsored By:
- George M. Beal Lecture Fund
- Sociology
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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