10 Companies That Control Almost Everything We Eat

Via Business Insider - Oxfam International has made a graphic showing how a handful of corporations<http://www.bespacific.com/10-companies-control-almost-everything-eat/%20%20http://www.businessinsider.com/10-companies-that-control-what-we-buy-2014-7#ixzz36ogugLEi> control nearly everything we buy at the grocery store. The graphic focuses on 10 of the world's most powerful food and beverage companies: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Unilever, Danone, Mars, Mondelez International, Kellogg's, General Mills, Nestle, and Associated British Foods. Oxfam calls these companies the Big 10 and keeps a scorecard on their environmental impact on a website <http://www.behindthebrands.org/en-us> devoted to the nonprofit's "Behind the Brands" campaign. The campaign aims to make the companies more environmentally and socially conscious. According to one of Oxfam's most recent reports<http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/bp186-standing-sidelines-big10-climate-emissions-200514-en_2.pdf>, the Big 10 emitted 263.7 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2013 and if the companies were a nation, it would be the 25th most polluting country in the world."