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NUMBER TWO IN GLOBAL JUNK FOOD: TOBACCO. "Morris secured its number two position in the global food industry in 2000 with the purchase of Nabisco Holdings Corp. The $19.2 billion acquisition created a $34.9 billion food concern and gave Kraft an entrance into the fast-growing snack foods segment with products like Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers." http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/72/Philip-Morris-Companies-Inc.html View in LinkedIn

FROM TOBACCO TO JUNK FOOD. "While Morris spent much of its effort cleaning up its tainted tobacco image, the company was making giant strides in the food industry. From 1992 to 1997, Kraft's profit margin had increased to 16 percent--one of the highest in the food industry. The unit also controlled 35 percent of the frozen food market, after the successful 1995 launch of DiGiorno Rising Crust pizza, and continued to be the market leader in many of its product segments." http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/72/Philip-Morris-Companies-Inc.html View in LinkedIn

PHILIP MORRIS/ALTRIA GROUP, PACKAGED FOOD LEADER. "The success of Kraft and Miller, coupled with Morris's still highly profitable tobacco market, has made Morris the world's largest producer and marketer--as well as the largest U.S. exporter--of packaged consumer goods. In fact, by the early 1990s, substantially more than half of the company's revenue was generated by non-tobacco products." View in LinkedIn

STIMULANTS TOP SUPERMARKET SALES. "If you look at the list of top products, it's basically a list of stimulants, nicotine and caffeine." (Australia). https://lnkd.in/dryJsJv View in LinkedIn

ATRIA GROUP "Altria spent around $101 million on lobbying the United States government between 1998 and 2004, making it the second most active organization in the nation. Altria also funded The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition which lobbied against the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change. Daniel Smith, representing Altria, sits on the Private Enterprise Board of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altria View in LinkedIn

ONLY 33% SPENT ON REAL FOOD. "Of the $85 billion spent on supermarket groceries each year, raw meat, fresh fruit and vegetables contribute an estimated $28 billion." (Australia supermarket data). https://lnkd.in/dryJsJv View in LinkedIn

SUMMATION OF CAPACITY. "An ant is part of a colony, much as a neuron is part of a brain. An ant cannot do much in isolation, but a colony is a highly resilient adaptive system. Similarly, a neuron is individually able to only make limited interactions with other neurons, but the brain is capable of highly complex cognitive processes. In other words, both ants and neurons behave/act in perfect harmony with other conspecifics/cells to accomplish tasks that go beyond the capability of a single individual." https://lnkd.in/dAsj2i3 View in LinkedIn

"CIGARETTES AND JUNK FOOD dominate supermarket growth. Australians now spend 10 per cent of the nation's annual grocery bill on tobacco products, and one in every five dollars spent at supermarkets goes on cigarettes or junk food ... the fastest growth rates are coming from tobacco and junk foods, which now top $17 billion of combined sales (20% of annual sales)." https://lnkd.in/dryJsJv View in LinkedIn

ROYAL JELLY. "An early study also determined the cellular basis of the discrete caste morphology of A. mellifera. Queens arise when workers in a colony selectively feed chosen larvae royal jelly. The caste differentiation occurs through an epigenetic process; non-heritable factors contributing to gene expression. Queen and worker morphological forms both come occur from the same genome, royal jelly nourishment is the non-genetic determiner." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics_of_social_behavior View in LinkedIn

BIG FOOD POLITICS. "Conflict about junk food has intensified since late 2001, when a Surgeon General's report called obesity an "epidemic." Since that time, the White House has repeatedly weighed in on the side of Big Food. It worked hard to weaken the World Health Organization's global anti-obesity strategy and went so far as to question the scientific basis for "the linking of fruit and vegetable consumption to decreased risk of obesity and diabetes." https://lnkd.in/dVfANpN View in LinkedIn