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In 1985 Karl Ludwig Schweisfurth, a business man who had spent years actively working in the food sector, established the Schweisfurth Foundation. He had played an essential part in industrializing and globalizing the meat production sector in Europe. For decades he had been instrumental in turning the fulfillment of basic consumer needs into a way of maximizing profits through automation, specialization, and concentration.
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Gottwald, FT. (2010). Epilogue: The Schweisfurth Foundation – A German Food-Ethics-Platform. In: Gottwald, FT., Ingensiep, H., Meinhardt, M. (eds) Food Ethics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5765-8_13
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