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Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
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"Well written, very educational, incisive. Everyone who buys and eats food in the US should read (or listen to) this book. "
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"You can’t live in a place like Iowa as long as I have and not be aware that something is deeply wrong with America’s food system. I’m not old enough to remember what it was like before: I grew up a city boy, so the changes in rural Iowa were largely "
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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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