Barons by Austin Frerick: Author Talk [Livable Future LIVE]

Join Food & Water Watch for a virtual conversation with Austin Frerick, author of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry from 7:00-8:00 pm ET (4:00-5:00 pm PT).

Austin Frerick's insightful book explores seven food industry titans' rise to power and how they helped create the unjust American food system we know today. Through a historical lens, Frerick exposes these tycoons and monopolies as the greedy and corrupt institutions they are — and how in turn they've taken advantage of our communities and democracy.

This eye-opening book is a stark reminder of why we need a fair and equitable food system, and how we can achieve it.

Austin Frerick is an expert on agricultural and antitrust policy. During the 2020 presidential campaign, he advised candidates Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Pete Buttigieg on agricultural policy before ultimately serving as Co-Chair of the Biden campaign’s Agriculture Antitrust Policy Committee.