This Company Owns ALL The Food In Your House

The salt on your table, the turkey in your sandwich, the egg in your Egg McMuffin: “the worst company in the world” makes money off all of them.
You may not have heard of them, but Cargill Inc is the biggest privately owned company in America, and they have near complete control over how and what you eat, and how working people in the agricultural system are treated.

Their power and breadth has kept wages down, squashed worker power, and pushed family farms to the brink of non-existence, while manipulating prices for the consumer.

And it’s made one family—the Cargills—very, very rich.
We worked with Second Thought to show you how exactly they amassed all that wealth, and what it means for you.
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[davidmouton]

I work maintenance for cargill for the last 6 years. Worked every holiday, came in when called in the middle of the night, worked 60 hrs a week and they decided to outsource maintenance to another company. So I am getting the boot. They claim to be a family oriented company, but that is not true. They underpay everyone at the mill I work at and expect everyone to work like slaves. It’s really sad.

[CashisKingtrucking]

Just another reminder that America is not a country It's a corporation. If you got enough money you can do whatever you want.

[IamKlaus]

Smiling all the way to the bank while their "food" slowly kills you. Isn't humanity just marvellous.

[Speed_of_Sloth]

Lobbyists should be outlawed. Nothing good has happened to consumers as a result of their efforts.

[Danielle-zqkb]

I buy from local farmers and use my town’s food co-op. This isn’t a perfect way to get food that isn’t from Cargill, but it helps. Every town should have a food co-op instead of only grocery stores.

[shelleekurtz]

I worked for Cargill for 12 years and for those of you who “aren’t going to buy their products” then you better start growing your own food and raising your own meat. Cargill may not have their logo or whatever on the label but be assured they touch everything at least once before it hits the store. They don’t have to own the company that produces/manufactures the product, the processing plant or mill but they’ve had it in their possession at least once. They own 85% of the company because in the late 90’s they sold shares to their employees because they needed cash. All of their “worth” was in equity holdings but they needed cash flow. Yes I agree they are monopolizing the industry and they need to be stopped but the government has to step in and we all know that’s not going to happen.

[sappysamurai]

The other big dark company who doesn’t care who starved or dies is Nestle. They buy main water supplies in U.S. and other countries so we have to buy from them. And intentionally caused childhood malnutrition in Africa and the developing countries. They own tens of thousands of processed food companies. The other half of your pantry is probably from them. I say homesteading and local organic farming, organic seed (that you don’t have to depend on companies to be able to regrow crops that have dead seeds because they are gmo) is the way we should go if we want to live and be free.

[waskele.wabbit]

There used to be a Cargill grain elevator in our farming community. When the employees would get close to being eligible for a pension they would fire them. Sounds like a real caring family operation doesn't it.

[chriswhite]

I currently work for Cargill. I agree with everything this guy had to say. I would put them at the number one most greedy family in the world.

[gusmonster]

A former sister-in-law works for Cargill. She thinks they're wonderful. They are huge in the Midwest. I find it funny how AT&T (used be Ma Bell) was forced to break up to prevent them from having a monopoly. I think Mircosoft had to do the same thing. Yet here we are still allowing companies to form monopolies and making laws protecting corporations from being sued.

[kermitthefrog]

It is videos like this that should be shown on Mainstream Media...this is what journalism should be and could you imagine what would happen if this was on the news??
Great job !!

[tommiller]

They are headquartered in Minnesota. Being privately owned, they escape most public scrutiny. For years, they were known as one of the Four Sisters who controlled the wheat industry for the entire world. Apparently, they've grown since then.

[christinan]

This is very disturbing, especially on the heels of a threatened food shortage. This company has a mega monopoly over many different product areas. It’s easy to see that they can exert control over whole nations of ppl just by withholding food stuffs, raising prices insanely high or by paying unfair wages to workers. They get what they want from regulatory agencies bcuz they are likely using their vast wealth to pay off ppl under the table.

[burntreynoldsschilltime]

This is basically the problem with the world. Thanks for sharing who the problem is . People need to know these things

[gamtngirl]

These episodes are crucial information for the American public. We truly are a Corporatocracy.

[leerussel]

I cut meat for 40 years and owned my own butcher shop for the last ten years. Cargill in the early 2000s owned almost all the boxed meat that the grocery stores sell. The competition is gone you play Cargill s price or you don't sell meat.
When I opened my butcher shop I was going old school. I still had the skills to cut hanging meat
That is when I really seen what was happening I was buying beef and pork from local farms. The teast and smell I remember was back. I sold the shop and retired in 2017. They still sell local meat and people come from all over to get local
Cargill is killing you

[nawwk]

Government: "Cargill, we are regulating you."
Cargill: "Sure, here's a few billion dollars for you."
Government: "Cargill, we want you to do whatever you want."

[LetsProblemSolve]

The government is supposed to break up monopolies, NOT work with them.

[jzblue]

How does so much wealth get into so few hands?? Because we keep giving it to them!

[Rdicalized]

Im a free market conservative capitalist & you just made the best argument for Gov’t regulation I’ve ever agreed with. Superb video!!