Austin Frerick
@AustinFrerick
Wrote: Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry. Fellow @Yale. Formerly @USTreasury/@CRS4Congress. #firstgen 🌽🐷🏳️🌈
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Just finished this profound book by Austin Frerick about the “Barons” who control much of our food system. Wondering how workers, the environment, animals, and family farmers have been exploited by big food corporations? It’s in here, with a hopeful clarion call for change.
'As farms consolidate, more and more of the wealth leaves rural communities and flows to the Cargills of the world.' -Austin Frerick
Exclusive new book excerpt from 'Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry' today on Food Tank (via Island Press).…
'All of Frerick's barons owe their success to deregulation, but the McCloskey dairy empire was built by devouring small farms, using a massive, inhumane warehousing model.' Devin 🌱 Thomas O'Shea reads Austin Frerick's 'Barons.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/muckra…
'I've not heard someone deliver to a conservative, right-wing, even MAGA audience the message you have and come across as well as you do' - Pete Dominick
I really appreciate that. I'm a big believer that the biggest changes come from bringing together strange bedfellows.
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry Austin Frerick joins me today. I talk to a lot of sharp people about very important and impactful issues but I'm not sure how you beat this
Listen and Learn along with me
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for Los Angeles Review of Books, I looked at Austin Frerick' s seven barons of the food industry ⤵️
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“Each chapter of Frerick’s book is based on a tremendous amount of research, as well as anecdotal scenes of the author’s personal contacts with US agriculture. His prose is refreshingly accessible and nonacademic.” - Devin 🌱 Thomas O'Shea
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'According to Austin Frerick's 'Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food,' the reclusive family who owns JAB Holdings is hiding a dark past.' Devin 🌱 Thomas O'Shea takes a closer look at the barons of the American food industry. lareviewofbooks.org/article/muckra…
It's #IndependentBookstoreDay in 🇨🇦! I was so happy when I got the call from Mosaic Books that 2 special orders I had placed arrived just in time for me to celebrate. 'Barons,' by Austin Frerick & 'Unsavory Truth' by Marion Nestle. I can't wait to dive into them! 🍴
Happy Friday! Tune in to hear our Food Policy & Progress special featuring Marion Nestle, Eric Schlosser, Earl Blumenauer Governor Tim Walz & Austin Frerick!
📻 SiriusXM Progress
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'Although the vehicle of stories about each of these barons in turn is an interesting read, what I found most valuable was the final chapter where Frerick lays out a way forward.'
Check out the newest review of Barons in Marbleseed's latest issue. 🤗
This is the 3rd interview I've read featuring Austin Frerick and jeez, I'm so flipping excited we're all having this conversation that I went ahead and special-ordered 'Barons' through my local bookstore Mosaic Books. Thank you for this in-depth piece, Twilight Greenaway & Civil Eats! 🍴
In a Q&A with Twilight Greenaway, Austin Frerick talks about his latest book that exposes the system that has allowed seven families, including those behind Cargill, JBS, Driscoll’s, and Walmart, to build enormous power. buff.ly/3PC370W
At the Sling, Kate M. Conlow interviews Austin Frerick about his new book *Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry.*
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Austin Frerick Thanks Austin!!!
Getting rid of regulations doesn’t negate economy of scale. It doesn’t fix predatory and deceptive practices.
They are correct that unreasonable barriers to entry are non capitalistic but that’s not the major issue.