The Food Monopoly: Who Shapes What the World Eats? (Who Really Runs the World? Book 5)

Your dinner may look simple. Its supply chain is anything but. Behind every chicken, grain of rice and packet of peas lies a tightly drawn knot of seed companies, farmers, commodity traders, factories, shipping firms and supermarkets, each with a different degree of leverage over what food costs and who gets paid. In The Food Monopoly, JD Arden follows food from seed bag to dinner plate, revealing the hidden economics behind modern abundance. Clear, vivid and historically grounded, the book explores agricultural technology, global trade, branding, supermarket power and the persistence of hunger in a world that produces enormous quantities of food. It asks when scale makes food cheaper and more reliable, when concentration creates dangerous dependence, and whether the person growing our food retains any meaningful influence over its final price.