![]() The Union stockyards were so important because this mass industry really changed the way Americans, well, the way the world, thinks about food. Why were the Union stockyards so important? Here's part of our conversation, edited for brevity and clarity. We caught up with Pacyga by phone to talk about how Chicago instigated that transformation. Because the new modern industry was quite a spectacle to behold, says Pacyga, and it was by watching it that Americans began to change their relationship to meat. Pacyga in his new book, Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard And The World It Made. "Its promoters clearly thought there could be no more appropriate way to observe a festive Christian holiday in the midst of America's capitalist hothouse than to open the greatest livestock market the world would ever see," writes Dominic A. That's when Chicago's infamous Union Stock Yard opened to the public in 1865. But the first Christmas after the Civil War is a key date to note. It's impossible to pinpoint the exact moment Americans embraced industrialized food. ![]()
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