Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry V.M.D. farmed in the South Tyrol

farmed in the South Tyrol region of the Alps and North Carolina before beginning their nineteen-year homesteading and farming venture in Pawlet

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Something to Think About

legendary agronomist Bruce Tainio

Ilse studied veterinary medicine in Germany before working as an archaeozoologist in Jordan where she discovered her fascination with camels and herding cultures

Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry V.M.D. farmed in the South TyrolBarons is 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