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(US Perspective) It's hard to boycott food when like 10 companies own everything. Even store brands are just re-packaged "name" brands.
Edit: Obligatory: Fuck Nestle. I'm already boycotting the whole left side of that chart.
Not trying to gotcha you or nothing, but it's funny, that image being hosted on amazon aws.
Haha. I was going to upload it to my own instance, but AWS-hosted media typically don't block hotlinking. Saves me some bandwidth egress costs and storage xD
Fuck Nestle indeed. I've been boycotting their shit since they started hawking water bottled in communities without reliable access to clean water.
That's not even just a US perspective. That definitely applies to North America in general and Europe. There are supposedly anti-monopoly laws but huh, would you look at that... it's almost like they're ineffective.
While the corporations own the government, the government will never effectively police the corporations.
It's a bold statement to say the government polices anything other than the underprivileged.
My local farmers market is really nice.
Yeah, these are all prepared foods in the picture. Maybe people don't know but you can just like... make your own food.
Lots of things are just flour with other ingredients baked in an oven. Soda is just sugar and fizzy water. If you've never had homemade potato chips, you haven't lived.
This weekend, find a recipe for a basic ingredient that you like (ketchup, mayo, bread, etc.) and buy the ingredients for it. Then make it. You'll be surprised how easy and tasty it is. Mayo is like eggs and oil. Why pay $5 for a crappy version of it?
Nestle owns a whole lot more than what's shown on that chart.
all of them do
Donxc forget the other issues on supermarket chain. Which are also an oligopoly.
One of the reason why european farmer are getting angry is that they are pushed to sell at low prices by supermarket purchasing departments and see the price of their products multiplied by 10 when sold to the consumer.
Not consuming highly processed food from Nestle is doable. Not buying anything at the supermarket gets complicated unless you have money and time (and I wouldn't be surprised that many neighbourhood and organic shop still buy food through the large supermarket purchasing chain)
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