Austin Frerick
@AustinFrerick
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Wrote - Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry. Currently @Yale. Formerly @USTreasury/@CRS4Congress. #firstgen 🌽🐷🏳️🌈
Joined June 2015
The result, said Frerick, is akin to “throwing gasoline on the inequality in America and in the food system.”
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New Review of Barons 🌾. “[A book] I just can’t stop talking and thinking about. my favorite part of the book was how masterfully Frerick writes about the interconnectedness of our food systems with so many other aspects of our lives.”
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RT @ryanmercurioh: @tracyalloway @TheStalwart and @AustinFrerick got me feeling romantic for agriculture and food changes from my @u….
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Honored to have presented Barons and keynoted at the @RCALFUSA National Convention earlier this month in Deadwood, South Dakota 🐂🇺🇸. I can't say this enough -- fixing the concentration crisis in America's meat markets is one of the most bipartisan things right now.
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It felt fitting to do a book event for my expanded paperback edition in Harlan, IA. Ellen and Milk & Honey play a big role in the book’s new chapter, which profiles Sysco as my Distribution Baron. Join us if you're in the area for a great meal and a lovely time.
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Special thanks to the worker-owned cooperative @EqExCoop for letting me keynote and present Barons at their annual Summit. Such an honor to such a cool org.
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And Americans already have some of the highest in the world.
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On JBS’ public listing today, and why it is bad:. “They're the largest [meatpacker] in the world, the largest we've ever seen in the history of mankind,” Frerick said. “This will just make everything we've seen in the meat system just get worse.”
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What an experience yesterday to walk the red carpet at the premier of The Price of Milk, a docuseries hopefully coming soon to a streamer near you. It was such an honor to be in it and talk about my Dairy Baron 🥳🐮
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Big Ag + Human Trafficking: . "Recent graduates were told they were coming to the US for cultural exchange. They ended up trapped in a factory farm.". Blockbuster piece by @ElkadiNina and incredible legal work by @farmstandorg.
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Special thanks to David Murray and Jacqueline Bond for making this expansion possible and to Whiterock Conservancy and Oneota Valley Literary Foundation for letting me be a writer in residence. I wrote a good portion of this new chapter in Coon Rapids and Decorah, Iowa.
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Preorder your copy now from Swamp Fox Books in Marion, Iowa.
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I've got exciting news to share. The paperback version of Barons will be published on Sept 2! And better yet, it’s an expanded edition w/a new chapter. In the new chapter, I explore the history of Sysco - my Distribution Barons - the largest 🌎 food distributor for eating out.
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For context, Vilsack's family would personally stand to benefit immensely from this briefing document. See this @tomphilpott's piece:
While the GOP tax bill slashes support for solar, wind, and EVs, it “makes a lavish exception” for jet biofuel, writes Michael Grunwald. The farm lobby, he says, is worried EVs will crush demand for biofuel in cars and aims to boost its use in planes.
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“Iowa can be all red, top to bottom,” Frerick said. IL, on the other hand, has a “dem supermajority.” But “when it comes to ag policy, what is the difference?” If ILs’ wetland bill fails again, it might confirm his fears: “There’s just not a difference.”
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RT @MikeCallicrate: A welcome and fresh voice for a better food system: Austin Frerick | Grocery Store Monpolies | 224 .
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