4 Mergers Of The Past Decade That May Break Our Food System Forever Unless We Buy Local:
June 2018 — Bayer Acquires Monsanto: A $63 billion deal giving one corporation control over both the herbicides farmers spray and the seeds engineered to survive them
August 2017 — Amazon Acquires Whole Foods: $13.7 billion brought algorithmic pricing and surveillance capitalism into the organic food aisle and fundamentally changed how independent food brands reach consumers
March 2026 — Sysco Acquires Restaurant Depot: A $29 billion deal giving the company that already dominates restaurant food delivery control over the last major warehouse alternative small restaurants used specifically to avoid depending on Sysco
March 2026 — Unilever Merges With McCormick: A $40 billion deal combining Hellmann’s and Knorr with the world’s largest spice company, with investors and regulators already raising red flags before it has even closed