Archived Judge Halts Merger of Two of the Largest Food Corporations on the Planet (naturalsociety.com)
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Archived Judge Halts Merger of Two of the Largest Food Corporations on the Planet (naturalsociety.com)
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[–] Coltodex 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago (edited ago)
Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/us-business/sysco-terminates-35-billion-planned-merger-with-us-foods/article25173927/
USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/06/29/sysco-us-foods-merger-breakup-fees/29455263/
For those who want to follow this story from credible sources.
EDIT: Removed Wall Street Journal and replaced with USA Today. WSJ had login/paywall.
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[–] hargond ago
Definitely biased. Only about three sentences to tell the story, and the rest to tell their opinion.
[–] captainplanet2 [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This judge prevented the creation of a horrid monopoly, on that would have added to the existing monopolies that control our food supply.
"Sadly, there are really only ten food companies that control almost every brand we buy in traditional grocery stores. Instead of growing organically on small farms and practicing sustainable agriculture, these mega-companies look for the cheapest way to call some chemicals in a pretty box ‘food’ and pass it off to us consumers."
[–] monadnock_project 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago (edited ago)
while i agree on the principle that two terrible companies add to make one terrible company - this author is pretty jaded. She doesn't source a lot:
[..."food’ to the masses which likely causes diabetes, obesity, digestive disorders, and neurological disease – only with twice the power to do so...]
that's quite a statement to be prefaced by "likely causes". Also, i hate how GMO's always get roped into this conversation. GMO's aren't all bad - and broadly branding them with known carcinogen's is a good way to spread fear.
besides, it's not like blocking this merger will put healthier meals to kids in schools or grocery stores. do your homework, don't eat bad food; same as always
[–] toatsmavoats 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
I came here to say this same thing. There's a line that says: "To see what kind of nutrition-lacking goop Sysco serves up, click here" which points at a page that shows, pork, seafood, produce, dairy, bread etc... Normal stuff, with good nutritional value relatively. I'm not saying maybe they have preservatives, use large corporate farms, or other shady unhealthy practices, but damn, at least link me to a page where I can find some tomacco for sale
[–] captainplanet2 [S] ago
I've never had a problem with genetic modification, obviously there is positive modification(breeding plants that contain higher omega 3's, more vitamins-minerals etc) and Negative modification(breeding plants that withstand toxic pesticides allowing for increased use of said pesticides). I do agree with the point of the article that currently these companies are producing nutrient deplete, carb loaded food which increases our disease epidemics...and by extension increases pharmaceutical profits.
Poor people can educate themselves all they want about healthy food but that knowledge is going to do very little to help them afford healthier food.
[–] scorinth 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
This is interesting news about important things happening in the world, but I wish it came from a more convincing source. I don't think this is likely to convince any of my friends if I show it to them.
[–] Sorahzahd 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
Stop playing the MSM game - this idea that everything must be filtered through the 5 corporations that control all MSM news is ridiculous and needs to die.
[–] scorinth 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago (edited ago)
No, no, it's not that I only consume media from the huge conglomerates, it's that I tend to be skeptical the kind of crystal-gripping newage pap that comes with putting the word "food" in scare quotes on a clickbait site whose slogan is "transform your health naturally."
Come on, you don't have to have sold your soul to a media conglomerate to be able to write in a non-sensationalist, science-literate way.