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| 10 Companies That Control Almost Everything We Eat & Drink (Infographic)
Scour the aisles of the grocery store, and you may be astonished to find just how many types of Pringles there are out there. But while there seems to be no end to the diversity of junk food, a comprehensive infographic has been put together to show you just how few corporations provide us with the hundreds of products available at our fingertips. Oxfam International created the infographic that exposes an inconceivable reality: Just 10 main corporations manufacture the majority of what we purchase at the market. "What we did is we took certain issues … [and] we saw the kind of impacts they had on the ground," Chris Jochnick of Oxfam told NPR. "We released reports about those issues and those impacts and how they're tied to the 10 largest food and beverage companies. And then we pushed the companies to begin to address them." You may not normally associate makers of soda with makers of granola bars, but seeing these unlikely ties that form the "Big 10" of the food and beverage industry