{"product_id":"barons-money-power-and-the-corruption-of-americas-food-industry","title":"Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Frerick's prose throughout is both direct and masterfully controlled, with every point supported by extensive references and notes. This is no alarmist screed but rather a careful, systematic, and  utterly damning demolition job —an exquisitely informed exposé... A genuinely revelatory look at mass food production in the United States\"   —  Kirkus Reviews , starred\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this  eye-opening debut  study ,  Frerick, an agricultural policy fellow at Yale University, reveals the ill-gained stranglehold that a handful of companies have on America's food economy...It's a disquieting critique of private monopolization of public necessities.\"  —  Publishers Weekly , starred\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e2025 Nautilus Book Awards  Silver Winner\u003cbr\u003e\nKirkus Reviews \"Best Books of 2024\"\u003cbr\u003e\nFood \u0026amp; Water Watch's \" Book of the Year \"\u003cbr\u003e\nAmerican Library Association  \"Outstanding Academic Titles 2024\"\u003cbr\u003e\nElectric Literature \"Best Books of Spring 2024\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBarons  is the story of seven titans of the food industry, their rise to power, and the consequences for workers, eaters, and democracy itself. Readers will meet a secretive German family that took over the global coffee industry in less than a decade, relying on wealth traced back to the Nazis to gobble up countless independent roasters. They will visit the Disneyland of agriculture, where school children ride trams through mechanized warehouses filled with tens of thousands of cows that never see the light of day. And they will learn that in the food business, crime really does pay—especially when you can bribe and then double-cross the president of Brazil.  Barons  paints a stark portrait of corporate consolidation, but it also shows that a fair, healthy, and prosperous food industry is possible—if we take back power from the barons who have robbed us of it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52891177877791,"sku":"A741","price":20.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0957\/0546\/5119\/files\/ebook_332_03e14b7899.jpg?v=1789631468","url":"https:\/\/lumobook.store\/products\/barons-money-power-and-the-corruption-of-americas-food-industry","provider":"LumoBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}