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Sysco and US Foods have been trying to merge for over a year now, but just weeks ago, a judge filed a preliminary injunction to halt the proposed merger. This amounts to a fatal blow to two companies that have already done more than their part to ruin the food supply.
The decision is also a victory for the Federal Trade Commission, which sued in February to block the deal on the grounds that it would lead to higher prices and worse service for customers like restaurants and schools.
The FTC failed to mention the practice of Big Food to serve up absolute garbage to our school children, or to stock grocery store shelves with brands that contain health-damaging ingredients such as MSG, high fructose corn syrup, GMOs, artificial colorings and flavors, and about ten thousand other ingredients that don't belong in what we eat. (For a list of US Foods brands, click here.) To see what kind of nutrition-lacking goop Sysco serves up, click here.
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If you see your favorite brand in the infographic above, look for alternatives. You can be a part of dissolving the non-food food empire.
Comment: It is pretty clear that the "big" interlaced corporate food, agriculture and distribution networks are literally killing us with their toxic products, while robbing us blind under their control. This has now come to the critical point of having dimming choices in how to feed yourself and your family - it's a mess. There are healthy answers though. Follow along each week with SoTT's Health & Wellness Show on BlogRadio, and check the vast bank of articles under SoTT's Health & Wellness sections here, which features many of the worlds subject specialists and the latest in diet alternatives.
SoTT.net's, Relic, has a few added thoughts on the subject of food:
Shocked! Justice! (This WILL be overruled).
[The quote: "This amounts to a FATAL blow to two companies that have already done more than their part to ruin the food supply." is simply Quasi-MSM BS.]
Why? The anti-trust/monopoly laws in America came about from the oppressive monopolies of the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century.For a while, they worked, but were undermined, in the end, by this sub rosa, private enterprise merged with a government from the top down (not from the electorate up), a/k/a, creeping fascism. (The creation of the Federal Reserve in this era is NOT a coincidence.)
This all is EXACTLY what Eisenhower meant when he warned, more particularly, of the Military Industrial Complex, in his Farewell Address. (If he'd been more explicit, he'd be hanging out with JFK.)
The last time that these laws - which are logical even to most stubborn libertarians, (such as self) - worked was with the compelled breakup of the 'Baby Bells." Prior to that time - I was living in So. Call, and across the US from home in Florida. Back then, (say 1982) if you got a long distance call, it was for Bad News- such as your friend x was killed! The cost of long distance was that prohibitive.
However, once the BB's were broken up, the prices for long distance calls dropped incredibly. (I'd guess to 10% of their former cost.)
But what's happened since? Merger upon merger has resulted in the same multiple BB's now being "merged" back together to the point that there are almost as few of them as there are of MSM Broadcast companies.
Same deal here. This will be appealed to and through sundry courts, and in the end, an appellate court will find some arkane reason to legitimize the sale and one less bit of competition will exist in America.
Please pardon the pessimism of the probable.
R.C.