• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Land of Lakes is a farmer-owned co-op…but from 1989 until 2007, Kraft was owned by Phillip Morris (the tobacco company now known as Altria).

    Marlboro and EasyMac were corporate cousins.

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      The tobacco companies saw the decline of tobacco sales and rolled into processed foods with all the addiction research they had already been doing.