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November 13, 2025 from 12:30 \u2013 1:15pm in WCC 1010<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Join HLS FoodSoc and the Antitrust Association for a conversation with\u00a0Austin Frerick<\/a>, a policy expert in agriculture and antitrust. Austin will discuss his recent book,\u00a0Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America\u2019s Food Industry,\u00a0<\/i>which profiles a series of powerful magnates to illustrate the concentration of power in the global food system.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Barons<\/em>\u00a0is the story of seven titans of the food industry, their rise to power, and the consequences for workers, eaters, and democracy itself. Readers will meet a secretive German family that took over the global coffee industry in less than a decade, relying on wealth traced back to the Nazis to gobble up countless independent roasters. They will visit the Disneyland of agriculture, where school children ride trams through mechanized warehouses filled with tens of thousands of cows that never see the light of day. And they will learn that in the food business, crime really does pay\u2014especially when you can bribe and then double-cross the president of Brazil. Barons paints a stark portrait of corporate consolidation, but it also shows that a fair, healthy, and prosperous food industry is possible\u2014if we take back power from the barons who have robbed us of it.<\/div>\n
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RSVP HERE.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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