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FORBES: Turkey Day Dinner, Brought To You By America’s Biggest Privately Held Company A single agri-business behemoth dominates the Thanksgiving industrial complex. There’s hardly a forkful of Thanksgiving that doesn’t involve agri-business giant Cargill, America’s biggest privately held company. Cargill makes key ingredients in gravy, cranberry sauce, packaged dinner rolls, cornbread mix and marshmallows for the sweet potatoes. It manufactures the vegetable oils used to roast potatoes and crisp turkey skin. Cargill owns Diamond Crystal, the country’s largest salt producer. Pies and the after-dinner coffee get sweetened with Cargill’s sugar alternative, Truvia. Even the candles on the table may be made from Cargill’s vegetable wax. As the centerpiece of the Thanksgiving-industrial complex, Cargill also brings America the star of the show. The Minneapolis-based behemoth says it supplies one-third of the 40 million turkeys scheduled for devouring on Thursday. “There’s not too many ingredients we don’t play in,” Tom Windish, who heads up Cargill’s primary #beef and turkey businesses, tells Forbes. “We could be in your macaroni and cheese. It won’t say Cargill on the box, but we’re part of many supply chains. We’re in that meal somewhere, whether it’s the feed or the center of the plate.” https://lnkd.in/e9kryYcF #thanksgiving #turkeybirds #turkeys #poultryindustry #poultrymeat