Tag: margins

  • Cut out the middleman

    Cut out the middleman

    Four traders, suppliers of raw materials supply 90% of food for humans and livestock: Cargill, ADM, Louis Dreyfus Commodities and Bunge. They supply cereals, cocoa, cotton, oil, eggs, flour, meat, peanuts, rubber, salt, wool, chemicals and vitamins. The biggest of these, CARGILL, is the largest private company in the United States and controls a quarter…

  • You can’t get enough… Enough!

    You can’t get enough… Enough!

    There’s too much sugar and water in low-quality food. That makes people crave for food without limits. The community pays for the care associated with the illnesses this ultra-processed food causes, while manufacturers are subsidized with community money to be cheaper. With the welfare state, margins made by industrialists have increased. Poor quality food is…