Cracking Down on Egg Industry’s Excuses: It’s Price Gouging
Egg companies’ profits are skyrocketing as they blame avian flu and inflation for their price hikes. Let’s call this what it is: price gouging.
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Egg companies’ profits are skyrocketing as they blame avian flu and inflation for their price hikes. Let’s call this what it is: price gouging.
Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell and Basel Musharbash shared evidence suggesting that dominant egg companies are using supply chain disruptions like the avian flu as an excuse to gouge consumers.
In response to record-high egg prices and just before testifying before the FTC, Farm Action urged the agency to open an investigation.
Farm Action is encouraged by efforts to strengthen antitrust enforcement by reinvigorating the Packers & Stockyards Act, and offered recommendations to USDA.
Willie Cade, a Farm Action Local Leader and right to repair advocate, is concerned Deere is only agreeing to the memorandum to publicly placate critics.
We’re thrilled about the opportunities that lie ahead to reform our food and farm system to work better for farmers, consumers, and food system workers.
Announcing our Food Not Feed Summit, Farm Action’s Angela Huffman invited the 118th Congress to learn about bipartisan reforms that will benefit farmers, ranchers, rural communities, workers, and anyone who eats.
“Noncompete clauses enable corporations to hold workers hostage and entrench monopsony power,” said Joseph Van Wye, Farm Action’s Policy and Outreach Director.