A handful of companies control the food industry

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http://www.convergencealimentaire.info/

This article is in French, so I hope anyone who is interested can translate it to read, because it's very interesting to see how much power the multinationals really do have over all of us.

" Hundreds of brands that we find on supermarket shelves give the impression that our money goes to as many different companies. But that's not the case: a large majority of these brands are owned by a handful of companies. The following chart provides an overview of where our money actually goes ( click here for a full resolution version):

Why this convergence is harmful?

This is a legitimate question: how the fact that these marks are controlled by so few companies is it a bad thing? Is it not just the functional outcome of our economic system?

In fact, we believe that this convergence is bad for various reasons at various levels which are all more or less interrelated. Here are five:

From the AlterNet article "The 10 Major Corporations that Control Everything You Buy" http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/933473/the_10_major_corporations_that_control_everything_you_buy/

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1. Here's the chart for those who don't want to take the link.

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2. Which is why you should stay away from industrial food. nt