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It is scary and intimidating when you look at ALL the brands that are all collectively owned by a small group of companies. This is why every little bit you can grow yourself or get from other locals who grow those foods is important.
Just 10 Big Corp companies control most of the large food and beverage brands in the world. These companies — Nestlé, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Danone, General Mills, Kellogg’s, Mars, Associated British Foods, and Mondelez — each employ thousands and make billions of dollars in revenue every year. For more info read this Business Insider article.
Theodore Roosevelt began breaking monopolies and the Anti-Trust Act kept monopolies from controlling the economy for decades. Reagan diluted the Act through deregulation and now we serve the oligarchs just as our predecessors did at the beginning of the 20th century.
Under capitalism, the USA has become one if not the greatest country the world has ever known. Demonizing large corporations that excel at capitalism is not the point. Supporting local independent farmers is, however, important to diversify the food supply as well as nutrition. It’s still possible, and we see it regularly, transportation gets shutdown or flood processing plants shutdown. It’s best not to put all our eggs in the proverbial basket.
Large corporations feed a lot of people. For a cheap price. Cheap food, especially processed, is poor nutrition. While farmers are making money farming for Big Ag and the industrial Big Food they are competing with a Big Corp giant for who is penny pinching for more profit, not a better product.
Big Ag, Big Food, and Big Corp also meddle in politics because they have the money to do so. It’s not uncommon for Big Ag or Big Corp in general to ‘support’ politicians for business favors. Small farmers can’t influence corrupt politicians in the same way.
Big Ag, Big Food, and Big Corp isn’t all bad but support your local farmer! You just might have to rely on him one day.
