Hi! Jane, Interested to note your figure of ten companies controlling 50% of the fresh food market. In Oz, three companies control 83% of all food, including that sold in fast food joints etc!!!!
Gil Jane Sherry wrote: > Growers and Shoppers Crowd Farmers' Markets > By TIMOTHY EGAN > > STOCKTON, Calif., Sept. 24 � To find chickens that still have a pulse, > neon-pink eggplants and tomatoes that have been described as better than > sex, the modern hunter-gatherer has to venture under the freeway in downtown > Stockton, and get there early to fight off the crowds. > snip > But in an era of big-box food stores, when 10 major grocery chains control > the purchase of 50 percent of fresh food, the proliferation of open-air > markets has come out of nowhere, giving more consumers an option and > allowing many small farmers to stay in business.
