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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by vadimberman on Monday February 12, 2018 @07:46PM (#16363822)
It's just a start. They have a more powerful grasp on the world supply of food than the joint grasp of Google, Microsoft, and Apple on the computing world.

You'd be surprised how many "artisan", "organic", and "fair-trade" brands they own, too.

The full list of their brands did not fit in the main Wikipedia article, so they had to create a separate one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unilever_brands.

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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by aaronbrethorst on Monday February 12, 2018 @07:53PM (#16363855)
> You'd be surprised how many "artisan", "organic", and "fair-trade" brands they own, too.

I get the quotes on "artisan," but why put them around two terms with very clear definitions?

Fair trade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade

Organic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_certification

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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by kodablah on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @03:42AM (#16365650)
From the top of your organic link: "Requirements vary from country to country". And the fair trade article also lists concerns with over-certification and validation consistency.

To pretend they are very clear definitions when applied to products is wrong.

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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by thisacctforreal on Monday February 12, 2018 @09:18PM (#16364252)
I loosely assumed it was because they don't have much faith in them actually being organic or fair-trade.
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