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Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
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"A very digestible overview of everything I studied for the past two years and everything that is wrong with our food system 🫠 "
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"Received this book free as an advanced copy and as part of a giveaway contest. I would have gladly paid for this book. It's an outstanding read highlighting notable individuals and families in the food industry. Only complaint I have is that it wasn'"
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"This left me with the feeling of needing to write a research paper or take a class about it so I can indulge in deeper discussions about the failures of our current food system. I thought I was doing ok at being a conscientious consumer but didn't re"
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Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry:
"Need to grow my own food. Basically like an episode of Unwrapped except Marc Summers takes you out behind the factory and exposes you to end stage capitalism"
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Aw thanks :) -- And I gotta ask, which chapter/baron did you find to be the most interesting?
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“The Reiter brothers built their fortune on water-intensive farming that can’t be sustained. But what elevated them to baron status was shifting production onto others and dodging responsibility for the havoc it causes. They are a pair of barons that only the twenty-first century could have created.”
― Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
― Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
“once you start looking, you can find concentrated industries everywhere in the American economy. In 2016, the Economist collected data on almost a thousand industries and found that market concentration increased in nearly two-thirds of them over a fifteen-year period.”
― Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
― Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
“One former Walmart Supercenter in Brownsville, Texas, became the center of a national debate when it was bought by a firm detaining migrant children.”
― Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
― Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
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