II. THE FOOD PROCESSORS: SOFT DRINKS & HARD PROFITS

II. THE FOOD PROCESSORS: SOFT DRINKS & HARD PROFITS

Production in the food processing industry is highly internationalized. Brand names like Quaker Oats, Del Monte and Pillsbury are household ...
APPENDIX: U.S. FOOD PROCESSING INVESTMENTS

APPENDIX: U.S. FOOD PROCESSING INVESTMENTS

The following chart is based on a study of the foreign investments of the 33 largest U.S. food processing companies ...
III. THE GRIM REAPERS: AGRIBUSINESS TECHNOLOGY

III. THE GRIM REAPERS: AGRIBUSINESS TECHNOLOGY

Well over a century ago, Cyrus McCormick helped change the face of U.S. agriculture with the invention of the reaper ...
I. SEEDS OF HUNGER: ROOTS OF REBELLION

I. SEEDS OF HUNGER: ROOTS OF REBELLION

In 1959, the Cuban Revolution startled the U.S. government into realizing that the seething poverty of Latin America's peasant masses ...
Chile: Voting under the Gun

Chile: Voting under the Gun

Millions of people around the world shook their heads in disbelief this January as Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet staged a ...