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Barons by Austin Frerick

Frerick does a great, readable, well-cited job laying out the history and effects of corporate consolidation in US food systems, and a nice quick job at the end laying out possible remedies, but like everything else I’m always left wanting more investigation into who and what is actually preventing those obvious remedies from enactment. 

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