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“We’re gonna return a lot of money to the farmer’s pocket and reduce the burden that they suffer,” said Farm Action’s Joe Van Wye.
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“We’re gonna return a lot of money to the farmer’s pocket and reduce the burden that they suffer,” said Farm Action’s Joe Van Wye.
Staggering costs for Americans at the grocery store are due to “the market concentration that allows for price gouging,” says Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.
Checkoffs extract farmers’ money and funnel it “into the hands of trade and lobbying groups that work against fair competition and market transparency,” said Farm Action’s Angela Huffman.
In this must-read piece, we reveal how Big Meat 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.
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NCBA receives the majority of ranchers’ checkoff dollars each year, but they spend that money helping corporate meatpackers instead of America’s ranchers.
The U.S. is bullying Mexico into accepting our GM corn on behalf of Big Ag monopolies, paralleling the circumstances that led to American independence.
Crop insurance is a major driver of consolidation in our food system. It leads to fewer, larger farms that degrade the land and hollow out rural communities.
The Food System: Concentration and Its Impacts
Our special report provides the latest updated data on the state of concentration in the food system, and illustrates what happens when just a few hands control how billions of consumers, farmers, and farmworkers work and eat.
Explore what’s under the surface of our food and farm system.
The checkoff has evolved into a behind-the-scenes machine that extracts money from farmers and funnels it to corporate lobbyists — who work tirelessly to consolidate power over our food system.
This is the story of how private companies seized and consolidated control over the seed industry — and how consolidation traps farmers, strangles innovation, damages biodiversity, and threatens our food security.
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