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SUMMARY: Austin Frerick on Barons: Money\, Power\, and the Corruption of Am
 erica’s Food Industry.
DESCRIPTION: Join HLS FoodSoc and the Antitrust Association for a conversat
 ion with Austin Frerick\, a policy expert in agriculture and antitrust. Aus
 tin will discuss his recent book\, Barons: Money\, Power\, and the Corrupti
 on of America’s Food Industry\, which profiles a series of powerful magnate
 s to illustrate the concentration of power in the global food system. Baron
 s is the story of […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <div><div>Join HLS FoodSoc and the Antitrust 
 Association for a conversation with <a href="https://www.austinfrerick.com/
 barons">Austin Frerick</a>\, a policy expert in agriculture and antitrust. 
 Austin will discuss his recent book\, <i>Barons: Money\, Power\, and the Co
 rruption of America’s Food Industry\, </i>which profiles a series of powerf
 ul magnates to illustrate the concentration of power in the global food sys
 tem.</div></div><div></div><div><em>Barons</em> is the story of seven titan
 s of the food industry\, their rise to power\, and the consequences for wor
 kers\, eaters\, and democracy itself. Readers will meet a secretive German 
 family that took over the global coffee industry in less than a decade\, re
 lying on wealth traced back to the Nazis to gobble up countless independent
  roasters. They will visit the Disneyland of agriculture\, where school chi
 ldren ride trams through mechanized warehouses filled with tens of thousand
 s 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 the
 n double-cross the president of Brazil. Barons paints a stark portrait of c
 orporate consolidation\, but it also shows that a fair\, healthy\, and pros
 perous food industry is possible—if we take back power from the barons who 
 have robbed us of it.</div><div></div><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/f
 orms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfaYSnJxaD-RgMqTUC8L0rUBelsasu6-wzcYpnYCA89trkcPw/viewform?
 usp=dialog">RSVP HERE. </a></p>
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