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> No one is going to have a monopoly of the food business, ever. It just doesn't work that way.

http://imgur.com/pnMMj

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ConAgra_brands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum!_Brands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBS_S.A.

We aren't there yet, but the trend line is pretty clear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIcE4OvnqAY

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None of these companies is anywhere close to a monopoly on food.

Cargill might be big at 100B+ revenue (global) per year but US food expenditures are 1.5T+ per year, so even a company as huge as Cargill is capturing < 10% of the US market. Hardly a monopoly.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-expenditures.asp...

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