Stuffed and Starved: "The Hidden Battle for the World Food System"

Stuffed and Starved: "The Hidden Battle for the World Food System"

If you imagine a sort of hourglass, at the top there are the millions of farmers who grow the food that we eat, and at the bottom there are billions of us consumers, and in the middle there are just a handful of corporations that mediate between the people who grow our food and us. And those corporations, in many cases-it's usually four corporations controlling more than 50 percent of the market. I mean, in tea, for example, one company, Unilever, controls 90 percent of the market.

African-American News 4/17/08 10:13 AM