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Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
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Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry:
"Really good examination / exposure of the consolidation of power in the food industry and how it makes everything worse for everyone but the monopolists. Grocery-wise he talks about Walmart and lays out the many problems with them, but he also goes i"
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"I know my not shopping at Walmart isn't really making things better but every little bit makes it better for me. The families behind hogs, grain, coffee, slaughter houses ...amazing rags to riches stories on the global food supply."
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"Well-researched, worthwhile read! It was easy to follow along with and every chapter was equally fascinating. I also appreciated that the author provided some nuance at certain points, such as sharing times that the barons genuinely apologized or too"
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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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