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Title: Merchants of Grain : The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food Supply by Dan Morgan ISBN: 0-595-14210-9 Publisher: Backinprint.com Pub. Date: 19 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Eating is a fundamental reality to citizens and politicians
Comment: I first read this book 20 years ago and was awed by the importance of the distribution of grain to the world, and particularly to one-party dictators. Anyone who understands political power knows that a small number of soldiers can control a much larger populace of people i.e. the German SS figured one storm trooper for roughly every 1000 plus people. However, when those people are all hungry at the same time it becomes another matter entirely, as in more difficult.
This book shows how a few big companies control the distribution of grain throughout the world. In so doing they are not prone to accept "aging receivables" from dictators, tin-pot or otherwise. Every political leader must understand the importance of grain or face a coup. Of course, one can find those who have lasted longer than others, but only at the cost of so weakening their state that it ultimately crumbles from internal implosion.
Read this book to understand history and more importantly the origen of our food supply and how it reaches our table.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Know for Everybody
Comment: An excellent work detailing how only a handful of families have controlled the worlds grain trade for centuries. A great piece for families that till the soil, but one that is even more important to the people who live in the city; and have no idea of the power and control that these families wield. Reading this book will show you how these families control the cheap food policies as well as the commodities markets and other products world wide.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Grain Industry has it's own OPEC
Comment: I am a captain on Mississippi River towboats. I have pushed millions of tons of grain down the Mississippi River for years. But I never really understood the gobal impact of the world's grain company's until I read this book.
Now I understand the real power behind families such as Cargil and ADM's Andreas.
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Title: Invisible Giant: Cargill and Its Transnational Strategies by Brewster Kneen ISBN: 0745319580 Publisher: Pluto Press Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Rats in the Grain: The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland by James B. Lieber ISBN: 1568581424 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Cargill: Trading the World's Grain by Wayne G., Jr. Broehl ISBN: 0874515726 Publisher: Dartmouth College Pub. Date: 15 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Cargill: Going Global by Wayne G. Cargill Broehl, Wayne G., Jr. Broehl ISBN: 0874518547 Publisher: University Press of New England Pub. Date: 15 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: The Informant: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald ISBN: 0767903277 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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