Okay, I've had enough. I have seen our food go from pretty decent to total shit over the last 30 years. For a current example, Quaker oats, fruit and cream oatmeal. Tasted ok, until recently when they changed it and are giving lame apologies like,"It wasn’t our intention to disappoint loyal consumers like you, Jaho. We’ve recently redesigned our products and appreciate your feedback. After all, your comments are what count! We’ve shared them with the right people for review," over and over for each complaint. Hey, I have a novel idea, before you make major changes to a product you do a little market research first. That's what normal companies do.
So who owns Quaker?
PepsiCo
PepsiCo, Inc. is an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation headquartered in Harrison, New York, in the hamlet of Purchase. PepsiCo has interests in the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company and Frito-Lay, Inc. PepsiCo has since expanded from its namesake product Pepsi to a broader range of food and beverage brands, the largest of which included an acquisition of Tropicana Products in 1998 and the Quaker Oats Company in 2001, which added the Gatorade brand to its portfolio.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PepsiCo
Ramon Laguarta
Laguarta has been tasked with implementing PepsiCo’s new sustainability agenda. Under his leadership, the company is focusing its efforts and goals around plastics, climate change, water usage, agriculture, and human rights.
This includes the company’s effort to reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 percent for their entire value chain over a 2015 baseline (roughly 30-35 million metric tons of GHG)[14], as well as their goals by 2025 to make 100% of their packaging recyclable, compostable, or biodegradable and use 25% recycled plastic content in all plastic packaging. Laguarta has also led attempts to reduce waste by launching Aquafina Water Stations and acquiring SodaStream[15].
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Laguarta
The Vanguard Group
The Vanguard Group is an American registered investment advisor based in Malvern, Pennsylvania with over $5.3 trillion in assets under management.[3] It is the largest provider of mutual funds and the second-largest provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the world after BlackRock's iShares.[5] In addition to mutual funds and ETFs, Vanguard offers brokerage services, variable and fixed annuities, educational account services, financial planning, asset management, and trust services.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vanguard_Group
BlackRock
BlackRock, Inc. is an American global investment management corporation based in New York City. Founded in 1988, initially as a risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world's largest asset managers, with $6.84 trillion in assets under management as of August 2019.[3] BlackRock operates globally with 70 offices in 30 countries and clients in 100 countries.[4] Due to its power and the sheer size and scope of its financial assets and activities, BlackRock has been called the world's largest shadow bank.[5][6]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock
So the worlds largest shadow bank seems to have control over all our food and water. Does that make anyone but me nervous?