SOC 2080 Lecture Notes - Codex Corbeiensis I
9 Feb 2012
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Oligopolistic control of the food system: control of top firms by sector - u. s. Beef packaging : 85% [tyson, cargill, swift &co, nat. Grain trade: 90% [ adm, bunge, cargill] Pork processing:66% [smithfield, tyson, cargill, swift ] Food retailing : 48% [walmart, albertsons, kroger, safewy , ahold] (hendrickson, 2007) Harper wants the wheat board to pull out of beef packing its only controlled by 4 firms. 3 firms have ~ 55% of control: conglomerate. With free trade a lot of small processors shut down. Lower prices, kill competition, then jack up prices. Group of companies under unified control producing goods and services in unrelated sectors of activity". P&g and general foods in coffe market; delmonte, heinz and pillsbury in canada. What is the fall-out? consuming public for farmers , for independent processors, for small rural communities, and unltimately for. >weakness of anti-combines legislation in canada - see figure on page 113. P&g 743 000 000 in advertising ann. globally.
