BFL.
The chart that shows who owns the ‘organic’ companies is VERY similar.
Stupid Hippies.
The vast majority of item those companies produce are prepared & packaged foods. Buy ingredients, instead, and most of their influence is neutered.
Big business can not prevent me from hunting or growing. Only the EPA can and will do that.
Anyone who thinks this nonsense is worthy of consideration should look at what it costs to feed a family these days, as a percentage of total family income, versus 30, 40, or 50 years ago. That fact should make you realize that this article is unmitigated garbage.
The author probably liked the anti-capitalist theme in the movie, Food Inc. and has a poster of Michael Moore on his wall.
i wonder how much of this is due to all the mom and pop farms being run out of business my the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT??? most of them can't afford a full time person to keep up with all the rules/regulations the seem to come out daily from unelected entities like the USDA/FDA/EPA/USDL/OSHA not to mention local/county/state edicts
"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."
There used to be a packing plant in every other town and little feedlots and sale barns, the feds regulated them all out of business just like the corner gas station.
There are very few produce companies just a few very large cooperatives. They are the only ones who could take the hit if something happened and they got sued.
We used to have at least 10 chile canneries in the state and now there only 2, the largest owned by the Japanese. The little guy can’t make it. Regulation costs so much that only the large companies can afford it.
This article misses a VERY important point.
If a “big company” puts product in the store that doesn’t sell they’ll go out of business. That’s because another “big company” wants that shelf space, NOW.
The “big company” isn’t controlling our food. We are. We make choices every time we go to the grocery store that determine what will be there next time. The “big companies” are simply very good at monitoring what we want and delivering it. It’s what they do. They also try to influence us. Buyer beware.
But when it comes to choosing a government, we only get to make a choice every few years instead of every trip to the grocery store. That makes the government less responsive to us, unlike the store where there is real time competition every day, all day. We don’t have two governments competing at the same time. The competition is only allowed every few years and we must live with the results.
Government has control. As to the stuff available in the market, we need to blame ourselves (or our neighbors).
This is of course why one of the few objective measures of American health, life expectancy, continues to increase.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005148.html
Big Food paying off Big Gov is probably why there are few restrictions on the types of “food” people can buy with food stamp cards. They could easily restrict EBT to healthy food only, like WIC does. But they don’t. Instead of buying lettuce, carrots, oatmeal, milk, meat, whole grain breads, the EBT recipients enrich Big Food by buying overpriced and nutritionally deficient Doritos, Pepsi, and Pop Tarts.
Since corporations produce about 95% of our food, this doesn’t come as a surprise.
I scrutinized that chart and found that I don’t use a single product shown on it.
Feel free to grow or raise your own food. Nobody is stopping. Alternatively, you can choose to purchase what other people are willing to produce and sell. You have no claim on that until you buy it.
Organic, I guess that means it was grown with the help of organic "petrochemicals" made from 100% natural ultra-composted biomass.
My car runs on compost too.