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Big Corporations Have An OVERWHELMING Amount Of Power Over Our Food Supply
theeconomiccollapseblog ^ | July 14, 2014 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 07/20/2014 11:26:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 07/20/2014 11:26:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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This display would make a really nice wall chart - it’s beautiful!


2 posted on 07/20/2014 11:31:39 AM PDT by Ken522
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Rollerball !


3 posted on 07/20/2014 11:35:14 AM PDT by stylin19a (Obama ----> Fredo smart)
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A bit off topic; but a threatened strike against Red England food chain ‘Market Basket’ emptied the shelves in a matter of HOURS at many locations over the weekend...produce was impossible to find, except at competitors like Shaw’s and Hannaford’s. Taken in tandem with this; it shows how FRAGILE the food supply actually is...got garden? You’ll wish you did.


4 posted on 07/20/2014 11:35:34 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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Big deal


5 posted on 07/20/2014 11:38:33 AM PDT by WildWeasel
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Better that than Big Government being in charge of the food.


6 posted on 07/20/2014 11:38:35 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Ken522

Big Government has an OVERWHELMING amount of power over EVERYTHING.


7 posted on 07/20/2014 11:39:01 AM PDT by ConservativeAtLast
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The people who would need the food (because they don’t plan for 24 hrs much less a long period time) don’t have a freakin clue how to grow it! They would probably do what they do best...steal it!


8 posted on 07/20/2014 11:39:13 AM PDT by kcvl
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This article is neglecting the role of government in this..

How many U.S. citizens grew much of their food just 80 years ago?
Why don’t we do that now? Government intrusions/regulations egged on by these corporations???


9 posted on 07/20/2014 11:39:21 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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And the way that we are going to get these big corporations to change is by voting with our wallets.

He didn't propose how we do that when these corporations control almost 100% of what we need every week. I already buy store brands when I can and I don't see anyone breaking up their monopolies because of it.

10 posted on 07/20/2014 11:39:54 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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Ummmmmmm follow the money trail from these companies to Washington. Basically, big gov is indeed in charge of the food


11 posted on 07/20/2014 11:42:22 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Bitter clinger & creepy-ass cracker)
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The meat for the burger I had for lunch was once Bambi's mom. The hamburger bun, I baked myself.

I prefer to raise and make and harvest a large percentage of what I eat.

The spaghetti sauce for tomorrow's supper came 100% out of my garden, Bambi's mom provided the meat.

/johnny

12 posted on 07/20/2014 11:44:31 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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nope- we`uns up n`jehre done live on the farm.


13 posted on 07/20/2014 11:44:55 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits n firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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"I already buy store brands when I can and I don't see anyone breaking up their monopolies because of it."

Hate to burst your bubble but almost all "store brands" are made in the exact same factories the brand name stuff is and usually is made up of exactly the same contents and placed in an identical can, they just put a different label on it.

14 posted on 07/20/2014 11:45:17 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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I think this link might answer your question. I was overwhelmed just considering what these vendors have to go through, even in a cottage industry setting.

http://www.frostvillefarmersmarket.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/COTTAGE-FOOD-AND-BASIC-REQUIRED-FOOD-LABELING-COMPONENTS.pdf

Sadly, the more centralized our food sources become the more dangerous they actually are.


15 posted on 07/20/2014 11:45:49 AM PDT by EBH (And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
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No, no, no, the government neeeds to save us from the evil corps and you know that. Come on. S/


16 posted on 07/20/2014 11:46:07 AM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have moral objections to 5 of these companies. If I look deeper, I’d probably have problems with them all.


17 posted on 07/20/2014 11:46:20 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo (You cannot protect a child from child abuse by aborting it. Abortion *is* child abuse.)
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“So the American people end up eating billions of pounds of extremely unhealthy food that is loaded with chemicals and additives each year, and we just keep getting sicker and sicker as a society. “

So the life expectancy is plummeting?


18 posted on 07/20/2014 11:47:21 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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Well, then let us pray the Big Corporation food distributors will judiciously control the flow of foodstuffs to the market, to assure that only the more deserving get an adequate share, and the less deserving are forced to scrabble for whatever is left over.

Wait. Kinda ALWAYS been like that in despotic societies. Artificial scarcities are a great way to control the distribution channels through price.

Human beings have been known to subsist on eating grass along the roadside. Great, we won’t have to use those pollution-belching power mowers any more, will we?


19 posted on 07/20/2014 11:48:21 AM PDT by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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Aye.
Big Gov Food-supply —> Holodomor


20 posted on 07/20/2014 11:49:00 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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