Christopher Leonard is the author of The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business. The former national agribusiness reporter for the Associated Press, his work has appeared in Fortune, Bloomberg Businessweek, Slate, The New Republic, and the New York Times. He is a Schmidt Family Foundation Fellow with the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute in Washington, DC. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, he lives outside Washington, DC.