Download or read book Making Machines of Animals written by Neal A. Knapp and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author tells the story of how two different groups of actors, Chicago meatpackers and land grant university professors, significantly influenced the trajectory of 20th-century agriculture. These actors worked in concert to exterminate "scrub" livestock in favor of a eugenics-driven "improved" animal via their establishment of the Chicago International Livestock Exposition"--