Many of us try to buy products from companies dedicated to health–ours and the environment. That’s how start-ups frequently come into being. They become successful because of us. At that point, they’re bought out by huge corporations that don’t change the product’s name, because it has such a good reputation, but do change how it’s made. When we buy Burt’s Bees items, for example, we’re no longer buying what we used to buy. Here are some other brands that started out good and natural but were bought out–and the corporations that bought them out.
(Thanks to Tina Silva Blease for this chart.)
