They're not trying to "squash the spread of craft beer," they're trying to increase profits. Like all businesses. And that's not evil, that's essential to a healthy capitalist economy.
That's what I don't get. These Bud-haters seem to think that there's some bald-headed MacroBeer Mastermind in the penthouse of an office tower somewhere, sitting in a giant chair, stroking a white Persian cat and screaming at his underlings to "CRUSH THIS VILE CRAFT BEER UPRISING!"
No. It's just a bunch of MBAs in suits stressing about how to keep profits up so they don't have to cut their dividend and explain themselves at the next shareholder meeting. They're a business, just like any other business, with the possible exception of being unusually successful. They're people, like you and me, with families and hobbies. They don't lay awake at night brainstorming ways to "squash the spread of craft beer," they're thinking about their daughter's soccer tournament, or what snacks they should put out at their Superbowl party. Do you think the folks working the Budweiser bottling line are obsessed with "squashing the spread of craft beer?" How about the guy/gal driving the truck that delivers the barley? The administrative assistant of the guy/gal in charge of managing distribution in the Northeast? Are they all evil? Are they all to be scorned? Paint them all with the same brush, do you?
Gimmie a break. AB-InBev isn't doing anything that Chrysler, Coke, McDonalds, Johnson & Johnson, Captain Morgan, Apple or Twitter aren't doing. Don't be naïve.