Guest guest Posted December 15, 2002 Report Share Posted December 15, 2002 Thanks for the info on who all Maytag owns, Vicki. I just looked up Con-Agra---they own some 35 brands of food. For the most part all the food in the grocery store is owned by 3 big companies---Con-Agra, ADM (Archer s Midland) and Cargill. Friend went to Paraguay on mission trip. Down there were huge semi's loading grain with guess what names on them---Con-Agra and ADM. Yup they can buy cheaper in S.Amer. than support America's farmers and then ship it here and come out ahead. 50% of cattle in Colorado has been sold---guess who owns most of what's left--Con-Agra but that division is now called SwiftFoods. They expect 20-50% of farmers to go out of business here in Colorado this next year if the drought stays, which it is expected to do. When farmers go out there's a big ripple/domino effect on all parts of the economy. Before Con-Agra bought out the meatpacking/feedlot business here then known as Monfort of Colorado we used to sell green chop hay (ground in field into trucks and fed immediately to cattle) and fall corn to them. When Con-Agra came in they would give better prices but dock, wrongly, more on moisture in the product---so we quit them. They don't clean their pens good anymore nor do they have sprinklers running on the cattle to provide relief in the hot summers. And.....packing plant was shut down for over a week for contamination on meat products! And to think our former Schwan's man left Schwan's for a meat-inspecting job there---maybe he shut them down!!! Watch the meat you eat and cook it well well done!! Getting off my soapbox now, Lelia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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