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 Stories About: food and agriculture AND industrial ag AND North Carolina AND Victual Reality
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From Concentrate
How food processing got into the hands of a few giant companies |
Tom Philpott |
26 Apr 2007 |
Victual Reality |
| Two years ago, dairy giant Dean Foods shuttered a milk-processing facility in Wilkesboro, a town at the eastern edge of North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains. Photo: iStockphoto Dean processes 35 percent of the fluid milk in the U.S. and Canada -- roughly equal to the combined market share of its three biggest rivals combined. In my area of western North Carolina, it processes 100 percen ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, industrial ag, North Carolina, Victual Reality (all these topics) |
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