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23. Frances Moore Lappé and Family, What To Do After You Turn Off the TV (New York: Ballantine Books, 1985).

24. Listening Project, Rural Southern Voice for Peace, 1898 Hannah Ranch Road, Burnsville, NC 28714.

Book One: Diet for a Small Planet

PART I

RECIPE FOR A PERSONAL REVOLUTION

Chapter 2. My Journey

1. Impact of Market Concentration on Rising Food Prices, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopoly and Business Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 96th Congress, 1st Session on Rising Food Prices in the United States, April 6, 1979, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979. Testimonies of Drs. Russell Parker, John Conner, and Willard Mueller. (Based on their testimony of $10 to $15 billion in 1975, I estimate monopoly overcharges to have reached close to $20 billion by 1981.)

2. U.S. Agency for International Development, Congressional Presentation, Fiscal Year 1982, main volume, p. 239.

3. Ibid. p. 250.

4. William Lin, George Coffman, and J. B. Penn, U.S. Farm Numbers, Size and Related Structural Dimensions: Projections to the Year 2000, Technical Bulletin No. 1625, Economics and Statistics Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1980, p. iii.

5. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Landownership in the United States, 1978, p. 1.

6. Donald Paarlberg, Farm and Food Policy: Issues of the 1980s, University of Nebraska Press, 1980, p. 68.

7. Impact of Market Concentration, op. cit.

8. Industry profits from Handbook of Agriculture Charts, 1980, U.S. Department of Agriculture, p. 39. Overcharges estimate from Impact of Market Concentration, op. cit., adjusted upward to account for increased profits and inflation since 1975.

9. Washington Resource Report, Environmental Policy Center, Washington, D.C., July 1981.

10. “The Pesticide Industry: What Price Concentration?” Farmline, U.S. Department of Agriculture, March 1981, p. 10.

11. Council on Wage and Price Stability, Executive Office of the President, Report on Prices for Agricultural Machinery and Equipment, Washington, D.C., 1976.

12. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Status of the Family Farm, Second Annual Report to Congress, Economics and Statistics Service, Agricultural Economic Report No. 441, 1979, p. 40.

13. James Rowen, “Oxy Takes a Very Big Bite,” The Nation, October 31, 1981, p. 435.

14. V. James Rhodes, “The Red Meat Food Chain: Horizontal Size and Vertical Linkages,” presented at Midwestern Conference on Food, Agriculture and Public Policy, S. Sioux City, Nebraska, November 18, 1980.

15. Western Livestock Journal, August 1979.

16. An Analysis of the Futures Trading Activity in Live and Feeder Cattle Contracts of Large (Reporting) Traders on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, staff report to the Small Business Committee of the House of Representatives, September 1980, pp. 13, 21, 23.

17. Our estimate comes from the following sources: profits in the late 1960s averaged $14 million/yr. according to Feedstuffs, January 11, 1969. Profits for 1979 estimated at $150 million by Business Week, April 16, 1979. In constant 1967 dollars this is a 441 percent increase; in current dollars, over 1,000 percent increase.

18. “Cargill: Preparing for the Next Boom in Worldwide Grain Trading,” Business Week, April 16, 1979. pp. 3 ff.

19. Multinational Corporations and United States Foreign Policy, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, June 18, 23, 24, 1976, Part II, p. 241.

20. Wall Street Journal, March 6, 1979.

21.Dan Morgan, Merchants of Grain (Viking, 1979), pp. 234–235.

22. Feedstuffs, November 1, 1979, p. 1.

23. Ibid.

24. Small Business Problems in the Marketing of Meat and Other Commodities (Part 3—Beef in America: An Industry in Crisis), by the staff of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, 96th Congress, 2nd Session, October 1980, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980, pp. 28–29.

25. Relationship Between Structure and Performance in the Steer and Heifer Slaughtering Industry,