Austin Ronald Frerick

"Barons tells the stories of seven companies that have amassed tremendous power over America's food industry, to the detriment of workers, eaters, the environment, and communities alike. Readers will learn about the hog barons, who built an empire in Iowa through confinement sheds: massive warehouses that hold thousands of pigs and are polluting the state with unimaginable amounts of manure. They will meet the coffee barons, a reclusive German family...