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Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
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"Curse of bigness: food systems edition
Just like in other industries, unchecked consolidation hurts workers and consumers. This is affecting what we put in our bodies The amount of government money that pads these large firms’ bottom lines is rage indu" Read more of this review » |
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""If there's anything to take away from this book, it's that the idea of a free market, unshaped by politics, our institutions, and other societal forces, is a myth." Such a great book, very insightful and would highly recommend. "
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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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