by Alexa Erickson December 13, 2017 (collective-evolution.com)
• A study by global anti-poverty organization, Oxfam International, has revealed that ten multi-national food conglomerates control the vast majority of what people eat on this planet. They are: PepsiCo, General Mills, Kellogg’s, Associated British Foods, Mondēlez (formerly Kraft Foods), Mars, Danone, Unilever, Coca-Cola, and Nestle.
• These corporations are so powerful that their policies can have a major impact on the diets and working conditions of people worldwide, as well as on the environment.
• You might think that a beverage manufacturer doesn’t produce food. But, for example, PepsiCo produces Quaker granola bars, while Nestlé makes frozen California Pizza Kitchen pies. Pineapple Fanta is canned at the Coca-Cola factory, just like Barq’s root beer.
• These giant corporations make it extremely difficult for startups and small businesses to compete at all. And if they do survive in the marketplace, it isn’t long before these giant companies buy them up. While you may opt for better choices liked Naked Juice and Garden of Eatin’ all-natural chips, these companies have been acquired by the mega companies such as Coca-Cola and General Mills, but they still cost more.
• How to avoid these mega-conglomerates? Don’t buy any of their products. Shop at your local farmers’ markets instead, and continue to do your research when it comes to the small-scale brands you love because you never know when they may get bought out too.
• [Editor’s Note] These multi-national corporate food monopolies whose owners are a part of the Illuminati elite not only provide the mechanism for introducing nefarious substances into the human population, but their massive profits account for a good deal of the elite’s funding of clandestine programs such as the secret space program and off-planet colonies.
Scour the aisles of the grocery store, and you may be astonished to find just how many types of Pringles there are out there. But while there seems to be no end to the diversity of junk food, a comprehensive infographic has been put together to show you just how few corporations provide us with the hundreds of products available at our fingertips.
Oxfam International created the infographic that exposes an inconceivable reality: Just 10 main corporations manufacture the majority of what we purchase at the market.
“What we did is we took certain issues … [and] we saw the kind of impacts they had on the ground,” Chris Jochnick of Oxfam told NPR. “We released reports about those issues and those impacts and how they’re tied to the 10 largest food and beverage companies. And then we pushed the companies to begin to address them.”
You may not normally associate makers of soda with makers of granola bars, but seeing these unlikely ties that form the “Big 10” of the food and beverage industry controlling what we put in our carts proves just how easy it is to be duped by the American food system. For instance, PepsiCo produces Quaker granola bars, while Nestlé makes frozen California Pizza Kitchen pies. Want to feel even more misinformed? Pineapple Fanta doesn’t come from a tropical island at all, but is canned at the Coca-Cola factory, just like Barq’s root beer.
“These corporations are so powerful that their policies can have a major impact on the diets and working conditions of people worldwide, as well as on the environment,” noted Alexander E.M. Hess in USA Today.
The fact that you can count on just two hands who controls our groceries is a bizarre thought, but a much-needed realization. They include: PepsiCo, General Mills, Kellogg’s, Associated British Foods, Mondēlez (formerly Kraft Foods), Mars, Danone, Unilever, Coca-Cola, and Nestle.
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