Book description
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…
Why read it?
1 author picked Barons as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Giant corporations control every sector of our economy. Nowhere is this more evident than in what we eat and drink. Controlling these corporations are families about which we know very little. This book pulls back the curtain to reveal the families that created these food empires.
I knew how Cargill captured the grain market, and Walmart muscled its way to the top of the grocers’ mountain. But I had no idea that an obscure German holding company came to dominate what I thought were independent coffee and bakery chains or how the company whose name is on the out-of-season berries…
From Donald's list on The best books on what’s wrong with what’s for dinner.
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