A very few corporations make nearly every product we buy.......Behold:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

[NYC_SKP]

1. Remarkable, isn't it?

It's just like the media consolidation graphics we've come to know and loathe.

ETA link with your image, also graphics for the Big Six media players and Three Big banks: http://www.policymic.com/articles/71255/10-corporations-control-almost-everything-you-buy-this-chart-shows-how

Thanks for posting, Peg!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear NYC_SKP!

Thank you so much for the link! I hope everyone reading this thread will read your contribution. It is invaluable.

The link adds breadth and depth to my image.

Thank YOU!

[madokie]

14. Thanks to you and Peggy

No wonder we're in the fix we're in
Didn't there use to be laws against this
Yes I know

[glowing]

3. It's such a racket and monopoly, but paper wise and company written

to keep it from all being broken up. Quite disgusting. And most of this is shit sitting in the middle if the store... Should stay away from the center aisles and shop on the edges for real food.

[AtheistCrusader]

11. Quite true. The edges hold things with less preservatives. High turnover stock.

[Cleita]

4. Thanks CaliforniaPeggy

I am now knitting a sweater for my DIL. It occurred to me that we should start doing things like this out of our spare rooms and our garages and swap with others for goods they make to change this economy. The yarn I am using is made in Peru and hand spun. I have decided to learn to spin. There are local ranchers in my area who keep alpacas and llamas as well as sheep. I know they shear them seasonally and sell the wool to suppliers. It seems it wouldn't be hard to get a few bags from them for a start.

I know it seems tedious and time consuming, but what if those of us who are retired or not working spent a few hours a day doing the tasks that lead to making cloth and items of clothing. Others could throw pots for ceramic ware, and some could do other things to make the things we use. Then we could meet at a park or somewhere and swap our goods for other goods once a month.

Where I'm going with this is to try to wean ourselves away from buying consumer goods from our slave masters you have put in your post. It would take a group effort and cooperation to get this off the ground.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. That's a great idea.

You'll need a lot of people participating to make even a small dent on these corporate giants.

However, even they started small and then grew.

Best of luck!

[Cleita]

6. I'm not organizing anything like this myself. I'm too old and lack the energy, but

I'm throwing out the idea in case some of the Occupy Wall Street people might want to try this. It wouldn't make a dent at first, but I think it could become a movement that might catch on. If some younger people did put something like this together in my area, I would participate though. I also live in a semi-rural area. We do have farmers markets, but they are very commercial too. I would like to see people arrive with the extra produce they have grown at these swap meets as well and trade for goods they like. The key is not to exchange money. Once you do that, it becomes commercial. Sure, there are the things we still will have to buy at the stores like batteries, paper products, etc., but there is so much that we don't have to buy and can supply ourselves locally if we try.

[hibbing]

7. help me..

My old eyes can't read all of them, where is ConAgra?

Peace

[jmowreader]

8. You're right, they left off a HUGE player

[donheld]

12. I can't find ConAgra either. Here's a list

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ConAgra_brands

[TeamPooka]

19. Con Agra probably made the chart themselves to divert attention to the others.... nt

[Joe Shlabotnik]

9. We're long overdue for some 21st centuary trust busting.

Global-scale trust busting.

[The2ndWheel]

10. E pluribus unum

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. interesting and eye opening

[WCGreen]

15. It;s getting worse that it was...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. Indeed it is...

[Cha]

17. And, not one of those products are sold

in any of the stores where I buy my food.

Thanks Peggy~

[Blue Owl]

18. The periodic table of logos

n/t