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why is what the food industry decides to charge down to Obama?
Joeybagadonuts
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And I always figure that phony packaging stuff was just another way for big business to increase profits while decreasing product.
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it isn't, but don't tell vette.
also, try not to tell him that they've been doing the shrinking package thing for years. he won't understand.
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Its been happening in New Zealand for ages as well.
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I suspect a shrinking package is not just a problem for him when it comes to food.
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You're on a roll today....You hire Barry Bond's personal trainer or what?
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Get your facts straight, the farmer is the last to profit. The middleman hikes the prices.
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Yep, for about two decades now. And vette already lost this argument a few months back. Senility is a bitch.
lawlz.
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Shhhhh, the players union might hear you!
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Most corn producers in the US are massive conglomerates. The myth of the family owned farm hasn't been true for half a century or more.
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koalabear
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There is still plenty of family farms around, at least in Indiana.
The world's two largest grain companies are now one. The wave of mergers that has changed the face of the American economy in Clinton time is also engulfing the food industry. On July 9, 1999 Cargill Inc., the nation's largest privately held company, won approval from the Clinton administration to acquire the grain-trading operations of its primary rival, Continental Grain Inc. The approval came over the objections of attorney general offices from farm states, the Farmers Union, consumer and green groups, which charged that the union will create a near monopoly in the grain business. Combined, the two companies will control 94 per cent of the soybean and 53 per cent of the corn market. How can farmers get a fair price under these circumstances? Grain is not the only product where concentration is extreme. In the Midwest four companies control more than 40 per cent of the processing of each of the major farm commodities, lamb, beef, pork and chicken.
http://www.counterpunch.org/food.html
The world's two largest grain companies are now one. The wave of mergers that has changed the face of the American economy in Clinton time is also engulfing the food industry. On July 9, 1999 Cargill Inc., the nation's largest privately held company, won approval from the Clinton administration to acquire the grain-trading operations of its primary rival, Continental Grain Inc. The approval came over the objections of attorney general offices from farm states, the Farmers Union, consumer and green groups, which charged that the union will create a near monopoly in the grain business. Combined, the two companies will control 94 per cent of the soybean and 53 per cent of the corn market. How can farmers get a fair price under these circumstances? Grain is not the only product where concentration is extreme. In the Midwest four companies control more than 40 per cent of the processing of each of the major farm commodities, lamb, beef, pork and chicken.
http://www.counterpunch.org/food.html
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Its an Obama world wide conspiracy. Don't tell all yer sheep.
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obama is simply the greatest supervillian ever. not only does he have an earthquake machine which he recently used in japan to distract everyone from the real issues, but now it seems he's mastered two-way time travel. i gotta admit that i'm more than a little impressed at his power. he's like fucking doctor doom without the vanity or the silly green cloak.
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I totally buy into this. Alan Moore was right.
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you!
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he's a magician. of course he's right.
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We've had a fair showing of benighted fools so far, wouldn't you say? Even drew out a Carolina crab apple.
The biggest fool is the self-proclaimed "lib tosser."
