@conscious.app: Just when you thought you ditched Big Food, they found a way to sell to you anyway. ⠀ Trader Joe's sells the feeling of a wholesome neighborhood store, with Hawaiian shirts and hand-drawn signs, the opposite of corporate grocery. But more than 80 percent of what it sells carries its name and is made by other companies. ⠀ Some of those companies are the exact Big Food giants people shop there to avoid. A supplier contract obtained by Fortune magazine in 2010 barred them from publicizing the relationship, but recalls and reporters have exposed several anyway. ⠀ In 2010, Fortune revealed Trader Joe's pita chips were made by Stacy's, a PepsiCo brand. From 2018 to 2023, global litter counts by the coalition Break Free From Plastic ranked PepsiCo among the world's top four plastic polluters every year. ⠀ A 2022 recall revealed Trader Joe's snickerdoodles were made by Enjoy Life, owned by Oreo maker Mondelez. Reporters filmed children as young as 10 using machetes on Ghana farms in Mondelez's cocoa sustainability program. Mondelez said it was "deeply concerned." ⠀ A 2016 salmonella recall showed Trader Joe's pistachios came from the Wonderful Company. California spent over $70 million building the Kern Water Bank, an underground water reserve. In a 1994 deal, Wonderful's owners got 57 percent of it. ⠀ In August, produce giant Taylor Farms recalled a Trader Joe's shrimp salad over salmonella risk. That summer, the CDC traced a parasite outbreak to Taylor Farms lettuce served at Taco Bell and elsewhere: 12,883 sick, 570 hospitalized, two deaths. ⠀ A federal labor judge ruled in 2024 that Trader Joe's broke the

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