Why inflation is a hard swallow for food companies By: CNBC.com News March 20, 2014 at 07:00 AM EDT Food prices are on the rise. It's a safe bet consumers won't like higher costs and the same seems to go for food-related company stocks as well. Read More >> Related Stocks: Archer-Daniels-Midland Hormel Foods McDonald's Corp Sysco Corp Twitter, Inc.