Who owns which organic companies...

Domestic Goddess · #1 (**permalink**) 03-15-2008, 01:43 PM

Thought this might be interesting for you all to see

GOOD 009 - Features - Buying Organic

OHeather · #2 (**permalink**) 03-15-2008, 03:47 PM

I was mentally making a list in my head the last couple of weeks. You can get Cascadian Farms and Muir Glen coupons from eatbetteramerica.com, which is a GM co. website. When you email Kashi, it brings you to a Kellogg's site.

While we would like to think that organic companies are small, family run, enviromentally cautious, and such, it may not all be so. It might be, but...

That doesn't mean that I am going to stop buying the products b/c they are produced by a megacompany. I will buy them. But, I will buy them with a coupon, on sale, for the least amount as possible, without feeling bad for the people who make it. Because I know that they are still getting their bottom line met (and more).

Will I try to buy local? Sure. But when that is not an option (in the dead of winter), I can settle for a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th best plan.

Thanks for the info. DG. That site makes it easier to see what I was thinking all along.

derketchup · #3 (**permalink**) 03-15-2008, 06:56 PM

ok that's absolutely scary! I am definitely going to look for local over organic now. I don't think that large processors can be trusted at all.

queenofthehivemomof5 · #4 (**permalink**) 03-15-2008, 11:08 PM

I did not know this untill recently that Burt's Bees was owned by Clorox.

Makes me think a little more before about one of my favorite brands of lipgloss....

derketchup · #5 (**permalink**) 03-15-2008, 11:41 PM

Clorox bought Burt Bees, so they weren't always that way.

In fact, I'm wondering how many of these companies were bought? I know Odwalla was bought, and not founded by Coca-Cola.

Guinness74 · #6 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 03:27 PM

This may be old news, but here's a link to a chart that shows which major processing company owns your favorite organic brand?

GOOD 009 - Features - Buying Organic

Know which company you're supporting when you buy organic!

Ayanna · #7 (**permalink**) 05-18-2008, 10:55 PM

I didn't notice this one linked in here, but this one has not only the parent companies listed, but also when they were bought, also lists ones that are not owned by big non-organic corporations.

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and there is also an animated image of this showing kinda how they formed into the final image