The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st-Century #Agriculture
▻https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/09/magazine/big-food-photo-essay.html
Photographer George Steinmetz spent nearly a year traveling the country to capture that [food] system, in all its scope, grandeur and dizzying scale. His photographs are all the more remarkable for the fact that so few large food producers are willing to open themselves to this sort of public view.
By World War II, the J.R. Simplot Company had become the nation’s largest shipper of fresh potatoes; by 2005, it was said to be the source of more than half of all McDonald’s French fries. This 750-acre feedlot resulted from a realization by its billionaire owner, John Richard Simplot, that he could also use the waste products of his potato operation to fatten cattle.