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As of 2020, the five biggest egg companies controlled between 36% and 40% of all egg-laying hens in the United States, according to a recent report by Farm Action, a group that fights corporate control of the food system.
“In all of these cases they’re using a convenient excuse to price gouge,” said Angela Huffman, president of Farm Action. “The reason they are able to do that is because there are so few companies in each of these sectors.”
“Farmers have long deserved this certainty,” said Sarah Carden, research and policy development director for Farm Action.
Farm Action’s take on breaking news and developing issues.
The farm policy debate served as an early window into how both presidential candidates would approach agricultural policy in their administrations.
Kamala Harris’s agenda includes policies like blocking unfair mergers and a first-ever federal ban on price gouging.
Many are wondering what the recent Supreme Court decision overturning “Chevron deference” means for the USDA’s efforts to protect farmers. The answer: Not much.
“Kings Over the Necessaries of Life”: Monopolization and the Elimination of Competition in America’s Agriculture System
Our report reveals definitive evidence of excessive market concentration across all food and agriculture sectors, demonstrating the urgent need for the U.S. government to break up the dominant corporations and free our economy to work for the people producing, processing, and distributing our food.
The speed, size, and secrecy of “Farmer Bill’s” land purchases set off alarm bells. Why does a tech-obsessed billionaire need 240,000 acres of farmland?
The United States is growing less and less of its own food and is becoming increasingly dependent on foreign countries to feed itself as a result.
Thanks to the influence of corporate monopolies in our food system, there is a big, glaring contradiction between the kind of food our government recommends and the kinds of food it supports.
In this must-read piece, we reveal how Big Ag corporations pocket billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded farm subsidies.
The Truth About Industrial Agriculture
Our report exposes the devious ways monopoly corporations maintain control over our food system.
The truth is, industrial agriculture is an economically flawed system that only survives by spending billions of dollars on myth-based marketing campaigns and passing the true costs of production on to taxpayers, farmers, workers, and everyone who eats.
Published alongside our groundbreaking “Truth About Industrial Agriculture” report, this mythbuster blog series debunks the tall tales that multinational food corporations use to defend their business model and defeat any meaningful reforms.