"Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, Chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running 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. What was the key to his success? Hard work and exceptional...

This companion book to the sequel of 2008's award-winning documentary Food, Inc. examines the latest remarkable developments to reverse our dysfunctional food system through the efforts of brilliant innovators, scientists, journalists and activists.