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#3 is because there are middlemen that don't count. The middlemen in dairy want you to buy their brand of milk. However the guy who owns the cows sells to whichever dairy gives the best deal (the big farms all have a contract with one dairy to supply only them, but there are enough small guys who sell to who ever they can). The guy who owns the cows wants you to buy milk and doesn't care what brand it is.

The same applies to the others you named: sure there are brand, but there is something large below the brand that doesn't care what brand, only that you are eating.




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