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Big Food vs. the People

https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/big-food-vs-the-people/
48•jruohonen•1h ago

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jruohonen•1h ago
Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124738

connor11528•1h ago
america has a monopoly problem
dabbz•31m ago
True, we have way too many thematic versions of Monopoly. I'm still missing so many copies.
artisinal•16m ago
In many European countries, the largest restaurant chain is American. Not great.
rootusrootus•11m ago
Indeed if we could solve one thing with our gov't, I'd want it to be antitrust enforcement. For an ostensibly free market society we seem awfully willing to except it being anything but.
kibwen•4m ago
Free markets tend to produce monopolies. You know how economies of scale are a thing? That's another way of saying that small companies lose to large companies at scale. "Disruption" or "agility" is the only thing that small companies have going for them, but once the monopolist gets large enough they can just buy up any upstarts and keep the market all to themselves forever. This is why you require governments to periodically shake the snowglobe and restore markets to competitiveness... until the monopolist gets big enough that they buy the government, anyway.
EGreg•14m ago
Very relevant: https://magarshak.com/blog/government-and-industry-distract-...
nickff•10m ago
The measures related to lawsuits are misleading and terrible, because of the way class-action lawsuits have incentivized lawyers to pursue dubious cases against large companies.
wombat-man•7m ago
Don't they still need to win to get paid?
arthurjj•4m ago
I'm about as hippie with my food as you can get, but this "article" is badly written propaganda that conceals more than it reveals. Half way down the article you learn that ~80% (193 out of 239) of the lawsuits are in Mexico and

> many of them were against the country’s labelling regulation. Quinto Elemento Lab reveals the companies’ arguments: that the laws were a violation of their constitutional rights

but then it doesn't explain if the laws were

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