{"id":12593,"date":"2008-03-14T19:13:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T02:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/03\/14\/just-a-small-down-home-organic-firm.html"},"modified":"2008-03-14T19:13:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T02:13:10","slug":"just_a_small_down_home_or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/14\/just_a_small_down_home_or.html","title":{"rendered":"Just a small, down-home organic firm &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/awesome.goodmagazine.com\/features\/009\/009buyingorganic.html\">Which megafoodcorp owns which friendly, small, organic brands?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In some cases, it&#8217;s a matter of acquisition (adding something organic to the portfolio). In other cases, it&#8217;s a matter of &#8220;crafting&#8221; something small and cuddly for the public. In either case, nobody&#8217;d feel warm and healthy quaffing Coca-Cola organic natural juices &#8212; but slap an Odwalla label on it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Not that this is necessarily a bad thing. It doesn&#8217;t necessarily take away from the &#8220;goodness&#8221; of the products themselves &#8212; and, if successful, it encourages the parent companies to continue producing organic\/healthy stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there&#8217;s a bit of dissonance that comes about seeing some of the names associated (Heinz owns Celestial Seasonings? Naked Juice is really Pepsi? Mars owns Seeds of Change? Gardenburger is a Kellogg brand?). Welcome to the modern world.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/251609045\/which-giant-corporat.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which megafoodcorp owns which friendly, small, organic brands? 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