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MPL and Swamp Fox Bookstore welcome local author Austin Frerick to discuss his book Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry.
Austin Frerick grew up in Cedar Rapids and has a passion for agriculture that came from spending weekends on his grandparents' farm. He attended Grinnell College and graduate school at the University of Wisconsin. He is an expert on agriculture and antitrust policy. He has worked at the highest levels of government and this is his debut book.
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry looks at the food industry as it could be, as it is, and everything that lies in the middle. It looks at complex policy, consequences of choices made by politicians, the story of family farms, the power of corporate America and the food system in our country. The advance reviews are impressive and gives the reader a glimpse of how the American food industry got to where it is and how change is possible.