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is the retailers. Wal-Mart- if Wal-Mart were a,country, they'd be China s 9th largest trading partner."
And because of Wal-Mart's size, they can largely dictate terms to both their suppliers and their customers. Of the components of our national food supply chain; the farmers, the middlemen and the consumers, Miller explained, "each segment of the industry has its own financial concerns. Each segment of the industry is competing for its respective share of the same consumer dollar. The industry is not the voice of producers or consumers... when packers, processors and retailers want to extract their pound of flesh it comes from opposite ends of the food chain. The producer or the consumer always foots the bill. Tb them it is just business, to producers it is a matter of survival and preservation of an entire culture."
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