[UrbanCropCircle] Two infographics on the food system

[Susan Helf]

Michael,
These graphs are real eye-openers! The big corporations control  huge
percentage of their markets.
It's time for us to start a local seed-bank.

Susan

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Michael R. Wolf <MichaelRWolf at att.net>wrote:

> In my work as a "data guy", I recently stumbled across these two graphics
> and thought this group would like to see them.
>
> "Seed Industry Structure 1996-2008" Shows who owns seed companaies.  There
> are distinct colors for seed companies and pharma/chemical companies.
>  Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta (all pharma/chemical) are the big owners.
>
> https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/seedindustry.html
>
> "Organic Processing Industry Structure" shows which big processors handle
> the smaller brands (e.g. General Mills processes Cascadian Farm).
> https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/organicindustry.html
>
> I've also seen some animations from this guy showing how the mergers
> occurred over time, but I don't have a reference for them.
>
> Enjoy...
>
>
>
> --
> Michael R. Wolf
>    All mammals learn by playing!
>        MichaelRWolf at att.net
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> UrbanCropCircle mailing list
> UrbanCropCircle at lists.sustainableballard.org
>
> http://lists.sustainableballard.org/listinfo.cgi/urbancropcircle-sustainableballard.org
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.sustainableballard.org/pipermail/urbancropcircle-sustainableballard.org/attachments/20100901/96db3cd2/attachment-0001.htm>