In Meat we Trust provides an interesting look at the history of the meat industry in the USA. However, it should be read with a large corn of salt. It is mostly a business-industrial oriented history, that gives little attention to the environmental impacts of the meat system. There is virtually no discussion of the meat industry's impact on global warming. Ogle spends many pages ridiculing consumer advocate critics of the meat industry (Upton Sinclair receiving the greatest derision), without giving convincing reasons business is more believable. Health concerns surrounding meat are given similar treatment. Derision is heaped upon studies linking meat with heart disease, and the authors of the studies are ridiculed as greedy quacks looking for fame and wealth at the expense of the hardworking meat purveyors of America. Meanwhile, the risks of livestock diseases such as avian flu, e coli, and mad cow disease are hardly discussed at all.
In Meat we Trust should be neither the first nor the last book one reads on this topic; it is a good source of history from the business perspective and is worth reading.