Travis Mears

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With a more concerned tone, he noted the unhealthy canned foods that were commonplace fare for most Americans and blamed this on the culture of mass production and the monopolists. He felt that powerful financiers could vertically integrate industries to control markets, then hold the American consumers prisoner to a limited choice of products. Feeling subjected to the will of monopolistic forces he wrote, “Terrible hotels in Yellowstone, for days on end only canned food, ruthless exploitation by the food manufacturers who have founded the hotel corporations. Morgan’s [J.P. Morgan] prunes are ...more
Travis Mears
Interesting… same government, different year. :( when do we wake up and stop supporting these billionaires?
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