Food for Thought!
 

Oh no! Not Jell-O!

Do you really, really loathe cigarettes, cigarette smoke and smokers? Do you wish you had never started smoking?

This is something that really bugs me, so I just thought I'd share the bug.

Philip Morris Companies - home of the Marlborough Man - owns many of the brands we may have given up on our WOL, but have many that we still may use. They're also the proud owners of the Miller Brewing Company.

Kraft Foods North America is the North American food business of Philip Morris Companies Inc. It is headquartered in Northfield, Illinois, and traces its history to three of the most successful food entrepreneurs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: J.L. Kraft, Oscar Mayer and C.W. Post. Today, Kraft is the largest packaged food company in the U.S. and Canada.

Beverages
Coffee
Maxwell House
Sanka
Yuban
General Foods International Coffees
Maxim

Soft Drinks
Country Time
Crystal Light
Kool-Aid
Tang
Capri Sun

CAPRI SUN is a registered trademark of Rudolf Wild GmbH & Co. KG, used under license

Post Cereals
Alpha-Bits
Banana Nut Crunch
Blueberry Morning
Cinna-Cluster Raisin Bran
Cranberry Almond Crunch
Frosted Shredded Wheat
Fruit & Fibre
Golden Crisp
Grape-Nuts
Grape-Nuts O's
Great Grains
Honey Bunches Of Oats
Honeycomb
Honey Nut Shredded Wheat
Natural Bran Flakes
Oreo O's
Pebbles
Raisin Bran
Shredded Wheat
Shredded Wheat 'N Bran
Spoon Size Shredded Wheat
Toasties
Waffle Crisp
100% Bran

OREO O'S is a trademark used under license from Nabisco Brands Company

PEBBLES is a registered trademark of Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. Licensed by Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.

Condiments & Sauces
Kraft Mayonnaise
Kraft Barbecue And Grilling Sauces
Miracle Whip Salad Dressing
Bull's-Eye Barbecue And Grilling Sauces
Kraft Sauceworks Cocktail, Horseradish, Sweet 'N Sour And Tartar Sauces

Confectioneries
Altoids Mints
Callard & Bowser Toffees
La Vie De La Vosgienne
Toblerone And Tobler Chocolates
Terry's Chocolate Orange
Terry's Chocolate Raspberry
Toblerone Chocolate

Dry Desserts
D-Zerta Pudding And Topping
Jell-O Gelatin And Pudding
Minute Tapioca

Dry Grocery
Baker's Chocolate And Coconut
Calumet Baking Powder
Oven Fry Coatings
Shake 'N Bake Seasoning Mix
Sure-Jell And Certo Pectins

Ethnic Foods
Taco Bell Dinner Kits, Salsa And Meal Components

TACO BELL is a registered trademark owned and licensed by Taco Bell Corp.

Meals/Side Dishes
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese
Minute Rice
Stove Top Stuffing Mix
Stove Top Oven Classics Packaged Dinners
Velveeta Shells & Cheese

Salad Dressings
Good Seasons Mixes
Kraft
Seven Seas

Snacks
Handi-Snacks Snack Combinations
Kraft
Philadelphia Snack Bars

Toppings
Dream Whip Whipped Topping Mix
Kraft Dessert Toppings

Cheese
Parmesan/Romano
Kraft
Kraft Free
Di Giorno

Natural
Kraft
Cracker Barrel
Harvest Moon

Processed American Cheese
Kraft Deli Deluxe
Kraft Singles
Kraft Cheez Whiz
Light N' Lively
Old English
Velveeta

Cream Cheese
Philadelphia
Philly Flavors
Temp-Tee

Other Cheeses
Athenos
Churny
Di Giorno
Hoffman's
Polly-O

Dairy Products
Breakstone's Sour Cream And Cottage Cheese
Breyers Yogurt
Jell-O Yogurt
Knudsen Sour Cream And Cottage Cheese
Light N' Lively Low-Fat Cottage Cheese, Yogurt
Kraft Dips

BREYERS is a registered trademark owned and licensed by Unilever, N.V.

Desserts Ready-To-Eat
Jell-O Gelatin And Pudding

Fresh Pasta & Sauces
Di Giorno

Processed Meats
Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs, Cold Cuts And Bacon
Oscar Mayer Lunchables Lunch Combinations
Louis Rich Turkey Products (Hot Dogs, Cold Cuts And Bacon)
Louis Rich Carving Board Sliced Meats

Pickles & Sauerkraut
Claussen

Desserts
Cool Whip Whipped Topping

Pizza
Digiorno
Jack's
Tombstone
California Pizza Kitchen

CALIFORNIA PIZZA KITCHEN is a trademark owned and licensed by California Pizza Kitchen, Inc.


Karen

Yikes! They're taking over the world! :daze:

I'm confused, though. Does this mean that if I buy products from these Phillip Morris affiliated companies/brands that I am supporting the tabacco industry?

Any idea what proportion of their business is actually in tabacco?

Allison

Sounds like it's time for us all to join a community farm and go Paleo!

But really, a rediculous percentage of our school's budgets, and road repair money in this state is coming from cigarette taxes. It's good to know they are good for something.

Elihnig

Thanks very much for posting that. I'm guilty of using Philly plain cream cheese, but I didn't realize who owned it. Duh.

I've made a personal commitment to never eat a Kraft product again... because they run so many foods on the same production lines that they can't guarantee that any of their items are free of allergens.

Other vendors like Hormel are more than happy to produce safe foods, with accurate labels :)

ugg...rant
 

Ha, and we all think we live in democracies.....Small businesses can't compete with these monstrosities, because Kraft/Miller products are much cheaper (due in part to the sweat of third world workers and the nasty refined and cheap ingredients that are present in EVERY SINGLE ONE of these food items) THe corporate agenda is not one that is positive to the populace and yet we still buy into the system. The main reason I moved away from my hometown (a suburb of Portland) is that increasingly the personality of the place had been sucked away and replaced with McDonald's and BLockbuster Video and 7-11's and Starbucks and other lifeless generic places and my local coffee shop was driven away and the local restaurants were empty......because everyone started going to the new TGI fridays, etc. IMHO, the suburbs in the U.S. are a dead place because of the corporate BRAND NAME.

*end rant*

I am not a radical hippie or anything, but I really dislike the way my neck of the woods (the US) is changing in terms of corporate mergers, etc. Hell, I'm an idealist, but is it really too much to ask to NOT see two starbucks on the same block??

THanks for listening :D
Grace

Here is the link to their website:

Philip Morris

Their annual report is there along with a lot of other financial information.

Karen

The answer to my question was easy to find using the link.
61% of their 2000 revenue ($ 80,316,000,000 total revenue) came from tabacco. Yes, that's over $ 80 billion; it is not a typo. And it was a 3.2% increase over the previous year. The total from Phillip Morris tabacco in 2000 was thus $ 48,992,760,000.

That makes me sorry for smokers. It's sad enough that they're making themselves ill to support their addiction. Apparently they're impoverishing themselves too. Sigh. :(

I suppose the same would apply to breakast cereals. What are you actually getting in that box that is of value?

I was just having a live discussion about this. We were wondering if they own any drug companies? Smoke, drink, eat carbs and other questionable products, get depressed, get sick, then we'll sell you drugs. It would be the perfect set-up!

Karen