Podcast clip explaining food consolidationfrom @santacruzmedicinals

Transcript

If you go out to a restaurant in 2026, you might be eating prison food. Cisco Foods just announced they're acquiring Restaurant Depot for $29,100,000,000, which means if you're eating out at a restaurant, your hospital cafeteria, or your school lunch, your food might be coming from the exact same place. Cisco wants to control more of your food supply, and the problem is this might hurt farmers, leading to best lesser quality slop headed your way. This is so crucial because Restaurant Depot was the escape valve for independent restaurants that did not want to go through Cisco getting locked into contracts and price minimums. When so much buying power is consolidated to a company like Cisco, that means they can set the price at whatever they want and lock producers into these contracts. This is important because farmers only get 11.8 on every single dollar you spend at the grocery store or a restaurant. And this is just another clear example of our food system being so backwards. In an ideal world, your local restaurants should source from farms near them. And luckily, there are restaurants doing that, so tag them below, show them some love. And if you want to stand up against these big corporations like Sysco, comment below.