I remember when Cascadian Farms was a relatively small company with some nice organic products. And I remember when Gardenburger became the vegetarian alternative to cow-burger that people has heard of. Well, today, Gardenburger is owned by Kellog's and Cascadian Farms is owned (indirectly) by General Mills.

I'm just not sure if that is good or bad. If the products are still the same, this should just mean greater exposure to "good food" over the usual corporate factory farm products. But, does it? And what about the goals of the parent companies? Are these buy-outs going to increase the amount of good food on the market or are they going to be co-opted to just be "another big corporation product"?

Personally, I would feel better if investors that believed in organic products and vegetarian products were the financial winners here but, in a world of capitalism, it is easy to say it is their fault they missed the opportunity.