“It’s a system designed to funnel money into the hands of corporate shareholders and executives while exploiting farmers and workers and deceiving consumers about choice, abundance and efficiency,” said Amanda Starbuck, policy analyst at Food & Water Watch. Our investigation is based on the analysis of market share data from thousands of supermarkets across the US. It’s widely agreed that consumers, farmers, small food companies and the planet lose out if the top four firms control 40% or more of total sales. We found that for 85% of the groceries analysed, four firms or fewer controlled more than 40% of market share. The Guardian and Food and Water Watch investigation into 61 popular grocery items reveals that the top companies control an average of 64% of sales. The rest goes to processing and marketing our food. Overall, only 15 cents of every dollar we spend in the supermarket goes to farmers. Farms and meat processing plants are among the most dangerous and exploitative workplaces in the country. It also means those who harvest, pack and sell us our food have the least power: at least half of the 10 lowest-paid jobs are in the food industry. This matters because the size and influence of these mega-companies enables them to largely dictate what America’s 2 million farmers grow and how much they are paid, as well as what consumers eat and how much our groceries cost. The size, power and profits of these mega companies have expanded thanks to political lobbying and weak regulation which enabled a wave of unchecked mergers and acquisitions. In fact, a few powerful transnational companies dominate every link of the food supply chain: from seeds and fertilizers to slaughterhouses and supermarkets to cereals and beers. Investigation shows scale of big food corporations' market dominance and political powerĪ handful of powerful companies control the majority market share of almost 80% of dozens of grocery items bought regularly by ordinary Americans, new analysis reveals.Ī joint investigation by the Guardian and Food and Water Watch found that consumer choice is largely an illusion – despite supermarket shelves and fridges brimming with different brands.
#Snapchat boosting to root out dealers update
MaarZ promised to deliver an update which will remove the root checks from the app.Supported by About this content Nina Lakhani, Aliya Uteuova and Alvin Chang If you, however, plan to stick with either Snapchat and root, you might have to give the Snapprefs a spin. This inconvenience will result in many users dropping Snapchat and looking for some alternative, which will be more user-friendly, customizable and hopefully safe without applying these weird “patches”. Snapchat would be better putting their time into improving the application - they won't stop people from screenshotting snapchats (without alerting the other person), if someone actually wants to - next thing, someone will just hook into the kernel and dump the framebuffer output. Music labels gave up on it - the idea doesn't work.
They want to implement DRM on a still image, when even the content producers haven't managed to make effective DRM. This isn't a hobby app though, and it's trying to do something unachievable. If this was a hobbyist's "fun" project, it would be acceptable - OK sure, someone can screenshot images, or store them, but that's fair enough. If you are delivering the data to the user, they have it, and you must assume they have it forever.
Any application which tries to enforce client-side security, as part of its core use-case, is fundamentally flawed.
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