Lisa Haushofer, "Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition" (U California Press, 2022)
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The Meat Biscuit, a Technology of Empire
The meat biscuit is this sort of concentrated extract of all those nutritive powers of beef baked with flour, and as you put it in chapter one, quote, the meat biscuit was above all a technology of empire. And then we enter a willing participant in the US Imperial Project, and I thought that was actually interesting because of course there are people who are sort of unwilling or at least unaware in the kind of sense that we can assign responsibility or blame. So, Gail Borden, together with his business partner Ashbell Smith is the inventor of the Meat Biscuit. Both of them were very much a part of the Imperial Project and were working sort of towards the goal of
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