Why do Americans eat so much meat? What's up with chicken nuggets and antibiotics in beef? Why the "factory farm"? Historian Maureen Ogle explains in this narrative history of meat in America. The Price of Plenty is a tale of consumer desire and affluence; of policy and politics, fads and fancies; of monopolists and corporations and "rights," public and private. Written for a general audience, Ogle's survey ranges from colonial American cattle wars to the Impossible burger and Pink Slime.