Cary G Dean.
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This article appeared as part of a feature in the Dec 8th 1995
issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
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by Richard Freeman
Concentration in four food groups.
Grains and grain products, milk and dairy products, edible oils and fats, and meat provide the majority of the intake of calories, as well as proteins and vitamins, which keeps the human species alive.
Grain and grain products can be consumed as animal feed (especially corn and oats), and directly for human consumption, sometimes in grain form (the case of rice or barley), but often in a milled form, such as in bread and tortillas.
The "Big Six" leading grain cartel companies are:
Minneapolis-and Geneva-based Cargill; New York-based Continental; Paris-based Louis Dreyfus; Sao Paulo, Brazil-and Netherlands.
Antilles-based Bunge and Born; Lausanne, Switzerland-based Andre; and Illinois-and Hamburg, Germany-based Archer Daniels Midland/Topfer.
The first five of the companies are privately owned and run by billionaire families. They issue no public stock, nor annual report.
They are more secretive than any oil company, bank, or government intelligence service. Just two of these companies, Cargill and Continental, control 45-50% of the world's grain trade.
We look at the food cartel's control over each of the four dominant food groups.
Grains: Grains, or cereals as they are often called, consist of wheat; the coarse grains, including corn, barley, oats, sorghum, rye; and rice.
The Anglo-Dutch-Swiss cartel's control over wheat exports For the crop year 1994-95, the cartel's four food export regions produced and traded 88% of the world's wheat exports of 97.2 million metric tons.
But, the four cartel food export regions, while accounting for 88% of worldwide wheat exports, accounted for only 39% of all the world's wheat production of 522.4 million metric tons in the 1994-95 crop year.
That is, their share of world wheat exports was more than double their share of world wheat output.
This underscores the point that the cartel built up four regions as the choke points over the world's food supply, even though these regions, collectively, are not often the largest producers.
This underscores the point that the cartel built up four regions as the choke points over the world's food supply, even though these regions, collectively, are not often the largest producers.
For the 1994-95 crop year, the percentages that the cartel's four food export regions control of the exports of the leading coarse grains.
They control 95% of world annual corn exports, of 69.9 million metric tons; 76% of world barley exports, of 14.8 million metric tons; and 97% of world sorghum (milo) exports, of 6 million metric tons.
Within these export regions, the cartel's six leading grain companies have, historically, built up total domination of the external grain markets.
While the cartel's export regions dominate 76-97% of the world's grain trade, depending on the grain, the cartel's six grain companies also control the exports of the four regions.
While the cartel's export regions dominate 76-97% of the world's grain trade, depending on the grain, the cartel's six grain companies also control the exports of the four regions.
For example, in the 1994-95 crop year, the United States exported 102 of the world's 215 million metric tons in grain exports, nearly half the total.
It accounted for 33% of world wheat exports, 83% of world corn exports, and 89% of world sorghum exports, making it the leading exporter in each of these three markets.
Now, let us turn to the leading grain companies command of America's grain export market, with America itself controlling nearly one-half of all world grain exports.
The cartel's Big Six grain trading companies own and control 95% of America's wheat exports, 95% of its corn exports, 90% of its oats exports, and 80% of its sorghum exports.
A few smaller companies, almost all in the grain cartel's orbit, control the remaining market share. The grain companies control over the American grain market is absolute.
The Big Six grain companies also control 60-70% of France's grain exports. France is the biggest grain exporter in Europe (the world's second largest grain exporting region), exporting more grain than the next three largest European grain exporting nations combined.
The Big Six, along with some affiliated Argentine companies such as Nidera and ACA, control 67.8%, or two-thirds, of Argentina's grain exports.
Argentina is the fourth largest grain exporter in the world.
Argentina is the fourth largest grain exporter in the world.
Canada and Australia combined are the world's third largest grain exporting region's, after America and Europe.
Although they have their own unique internal picture, with a modicum of political influence from farmers.
Both are British Commonwealth nations.
Under the thumb of Queen Elizabeth II?.
In sum, the Anglo-Dutch-Swiss food cartel dominates 80-90% of the world's grain trade. In fact, however, the control is far greater than the sum of its parts:
The Big Six grain companies are organized as a cartel; they move grain back and forth from any one of the major, or minor, exporting nations.
Cargill, Continental, Louis Dreyfus et al. own world shipping fleets, and have long-established sales relationships, financial markets, and commodity trading exchanges (such as the London-based Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange) on which grain is traded, which completes their domination.
No other forces in the world, including governments, are as well organized as the cartel, and therefore, London's power in this area remains unchallenged.
Wakie! Wakie!!.
This plan's already in full swing Folk's
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