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Barons : money, power, and the corruption of America's food industry
Frerick, Austin2024
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Click and Collect for Barons : money, power, and the corruption of America's food industry"Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, Chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running 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. What was the key to his success? Hard work and exceptional business savvy? Maybe. But more than anything else, Mike benefited from deregulation of the American food industry, a phenomenon that has consolidated wealth in the hands of select tycoons, and along the way, hollowed out the nation's rural towns and local businesses. Along with Mike McCloskey, 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 discover how a small grain business transformed itself into an empire bigger than Koch Industries, with ample help from taxpayer dollars. 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. These, and the other stories in this book, are simply examples of the monopolies and ubiquitous corruption that today define American food. The tycoons profiled in these pages are hardly unique: many other companies have manipulated our lax laws and failed policies for their own benefit, to the detriment of our neighbourhoods, livelihoods, and our democracy itself. Barons paints a stark portrait of the consequences of corporate consolidation, but it also shows we can choose a different path. A fair, healthy, and prosperous food industry is possible--if we take back power from the barons who have robbed us of it."-- Provide by publisher.
Main title:
Barons : money, power, and the corruption of America's food industry / Austin Frerick.
Author:
Frerick, Austin, author
Imprint:
Washington, DC : Island Press, [2024]©2024
Collation:
xiv, 257 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-245) and index.
Contents:
Foreword / Eric SchlosserIntroductionThe hog baronsThe grain baronsThe coffee baronsThe dairy baronsThe berry baronsThe slaughter baronsThe grocery baronsConclusion.
ISBN:
9781642832693 (hbk)9781642832693
Dewey class:
338.4766400973338.476
LC class:
HD9005HD9005
Language:
English
Subject:
Food industry and trade -- United StatesFood industry and trade -- Government policy -- United StatesFood industry and trade -- Corrupt practices -- United StatesFood industry and trade -- Economic aspects -- United StatesFood supply -- United StatesAgricultural industries -- United StatesAgricultural industries -- Government policy -- United StatesAgricultural industries -- Corrupt practices -- United StatesAgricultural industries -- Economic aspects -- United States
BRN:
564481
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Computers and Business | 338.476 FRE | On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 19 Sep 2024) |
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