6 Companies That Rigged The Game and Changed The World.

[white_wolf]

It's time for another look at corporate greed brought to you by the brilliant minds of Cracked.com. Enjoy: http://www.cracked.com/article_19367_6-companies-that-rigged-game-and-changed-world.html

[snagglepuss]

1. to read later

[indurancevile]

2. hey, that was interesting & led me to this: 6 Secret Monopolies You Didn't Know Run the World

#6.
Luxottica Makes All Your Sunglasses

There were so many sunglass brands to choose from: Oakley, Ray-Ban, Revo, Vogue, DKNY, and if you must have only the best, $500 designer glasses from Prada and BVLGARI...The thing is, all of those are made by one manufacturer -- Luxottica... LensCrafters...Pearle Vision...the Sears or Target optical departments. Except that they are also all owned by Luxottica...

#5.
Menu Foods: The Shadow Behind Your Cat Food

If you are a cat or dog, you will remember the infamous pet food recall of 2007, where thousands of your kind died due to melamine contamination...How could so many brands (about 150) happen to get contaminated at the same time? Well, because most of them were made by the same company. If you buy wet pet food labeled Eukanuba, Iams, Nutro, Hy-Vee, Triumph or Priority, it all comes from the same factory. One Canadian company, Menu Foods, makes all those brands...Even worse, Menu Foods and other companies, like Purina, all get one particular pet food ingredient (wheat gluten) from the same place -- a tiny Nevada company called Chemnutra or as they're known to neighbors, some white guy and his Chinese wife. This couple shipped in 800 tons of suspiciously cheap wheat gluten from China and doled it out to every big pet food maker you've ever heard of.

But don't worry, at least Menu Foods isn't around anymore. They were bought out by Simmons Pet Food, another huge behind-the-scenes pet food maker, a couple months ago, creating an even bigger company making food for an even larger portion of the pet food section at your local grocery store.And ChemNutra? They paid a $35K fine, saw no jail time and changed their name to EOS Direct which continues to import nutritional ingredients, including stuff that gets put in energy drinks.

Read more: 6 Secret Monopolies You Didn't Know Run the World | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_18845_6-secret-monopolies-you-didnt-know-run-world.html#ixzz1UyO4rugM

[Hydra]

16. As good or better than the OP

Both show us how in the dark they want to keep us.

As Carlin said, "They are there to give you the illusion of choice. You have no choice. You have owners. They OWN you."

[Odin2005]

3. Great article.

[aquart]

4. They're people. Hang them.

[BillyJack]

5. Where is Carlyle Group???.....they own pretty much ALL of it. eom

[7wo7rees]

10. Carlyle had tremendous gains this year

on their recent purchases of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins.
Donuts, coffee and ice cream: old school Paxil for a befuddled world. Wins every time.

[sakabatou]

12. Baskin-Robbins?

NOOOOOO! But I love their ice cream!

[7wo7rees]

19. You can't switch to Ben and Jerry's

They were gobbled up by Unilever some time ago. They also own Slim-Fast. Gotcha coming and going.

[sakabatou]

20. I'd have to drive almost 30 miles for B&J

:(

[sfpcjock]

6. Super great!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. k&r/bkmrkd

[Mojorabbit]

8. KnR nt

[pnorman]

9. I almost skipped this thread when I saw it was from Cracked!

Thanks for posting it. But I'll have to check it carefully to see that it isn't a Onion rip-off.

[white_wolf]

11. I take it you don't like cracked?

[pnorman]

14. I've been a Mad fan since my teens,

and I've always regarded Cracked as a less than satisfactory imitation of Mad. But things change over the years and I could be wrong on that.

[xchrom]

13. Recommend

[waking wisconsin]

15. kick

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[Electric Monk]

17. k&r

[HCE SuiGeneris]

18. Huge kick. Too late to recommend.

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