Yves here. It’s not too hard to notice when the producer of a niche product you like gets gobbled up by Big Food and you hope nothing much will change. But that’s only one facet of the increased concentration in the industry. As this article explains, it has reached the pointe where some incumbents have pricing power. Even though this article focuses on the impact on rural and lower income households, one place where the effect is visible is in organic products, which sell at a 30% or greater premium to conventional versions. Yet I’m told organic food generally costs only 5-10% more to produce. And why should organic products placed out of the reach of lower income households? Shouldn’t they be able to afford food with fewer/no chemicals and additives?
Food production in the US is heavily concentrated in the hands of a small number of large agribusiness companies. That's been good for shareholders, but not for consumers.
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Dec. 13 The Sunday morning panel of the Schiller Institute Conference, “Overcoming the World Health Crisis and the Hunger Pandemic: Thinking on the Level of the
Coincidentia Oppositorum,” brought together 12 specialists in medicine, public health, logistics, agriculture and other fields, who conferred for close to four hours on the pandemic and world hunger crisis from the point of view of taking action.
The urgency to act was underscored by two messages. A video clip from Fouad Al-Ghaffari in Yemen, reported how the situation for 30 million people there is impossible without immediate aid. He said, “The famine is a war crime.” Ramasimong Phillip Tsokolibane, Leader of the LaRouche Movement in South Africa, speaking for the continent, said that, “Death stalks the planet.” He called for a global mobilization of food and medical care, or “hundreds of millions of people are as good as dead. Africa does not need sympathy. Africa needs bold action.”