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What are you on, the list is in alphabetical order, Cheerios, Cocoa Puff and Cookie Crisp are all on the first page. Nothing this company sells is especially healthy, not even their healthy selection. Even Wheaties has like 5g sugar per 36g.

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Shouldn't they list them by revenue? That way, the brands most likely to be familiar to any given consumer would be easiest to spot. General Mills has many reasons to prefer that people don't form their own independent associations and opinions on their overall business, but these also boil down to growth, revenue and profit. The design of their website reflects this perfectly.

There are many ways to be dishonest and there is great value in studying them. Humanity's progress depends on learning from the evil that is done. This is essentially like building a muscle; strain is required.

Remember this the next time you vote. Without progressive governments we wouldn't even know what's in that box of Cheerios. It's called consumer rights. In Europe we have many other rights too, such as worker rights.

There is the unsolved problem of the governments themselves being co-opted. The situation in Europe is obviously changing, but it still is very much under the thumb of the United States. We have all been living in a fairy tale and we are all about to find out where the bottom line really is.

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