I’m lecturing to students taking Berkeley’s Edible Eduction course. Details about the course are here. It can be watched livestream: details here. In person, it’s at the Anderson Auditorium at the Haas School of Business. I’ll be speaking on current food politics and also about Slow Cooked.
by Marion Nestle
Dec
12
2013
Food & Water Watch: Grocery Goliaths
Food and Water Watch has some excellent new resources on supermarket shopping:
- Take the quiz on who owns what and how much (really? I didn’t know that).
- Take a look at the terrific graphics (here’s an example):
- Get the report: Grocery Goliaths: How Food Monopolies Impact Consumers.
Food & Water Watch found that the top companies controlled an average of 63.3 percent of the sales of 100 types of groceries (known as categories in industry jargon). In a third (32) of the grocery categories, four or fewer companies controlled at least 75 percent of the sales.
I will never think of “choice” the same way again.