You are all forgeting that even if Synth foods are the biggest food company, there is a company who slowly growing as a big competitor to it(atleast in Kusari) Samura, with their food production on 3 planets. And with current discovery on kurile, production of food is really starting to kick in... and they are slowly regaining it's positions within Kusari as main food source company. At this situation, you can easily count samura in... they won't miss chance to step into "Synth" land of food market.