{"id":692488,"date":"2026-03-16T20:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=692488"},"modified":"2026-03-16T20:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:51:25","slug":"agricultural-and-grocery-near-monopolies-use-their-pincer-grip-to-destroy-the-small-farming-industry-and-the-quality-of-available-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=692488","title":{"rendered":"Agricultural and grocery (near) monopolies use their pincer grip to destroy the small farming industry and the quality of available food"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>\u201cFour grocers control 85% of the grocery market.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cFour meatpackers control 85% of meatpacking.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cTwo seed companies control 90% of the seed genetics in farming.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThree big [companies] control 85% of the inputs.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cWe\u2019ve allowed the consolidation of just about every industry to the detriment of the consumer.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/merylnass.substack.com\/p\/agricultural-and-grocery-near-monopolies?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=746368&amp;post_id=191164292&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=cw4pf&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\">https:\/\/merylnass.substack.com\/p\/agricultural-and-grocery-near-monopolies?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFour grocers control 85% of the grocery market.\u201d \u201cFour meatpackers control 85% of meatpacking.\u201d \u201cTwo seed companies control 90% of the seed genetics in farming.\u201d \u201cThree big [companies] control 85% of the inputs.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019ve allowed the consolidation of just about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=692488\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692489,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692488\/revisions\/692489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}