Time to Break up with Big Chicken? A Hard Look at the Contract Growing System
The contract poultry growing system is a bad deal for farmers, consumers, and the communities that surround large industrial operations.
The contract poultry growing system is a bad deal for farmers, consumers, and the communities that surround large industrial operations.
Mountaire is urging their contract farmers to oppose a transparency rule that would make it easier for farmers to protect themselves from unfair practices.
Farm Action tells Forbes that if the newly-merged Wayne-Sanderson corporation cannot use the tournament system, it may change the entire industry’s dynamics,.
The DOJ beat the USDA to the punch on reforming the poultry market by banning the tournament system for 15% of the market. The USDA needs to ban it entirely.
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 our recommendations to the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, we called for alignment between our subsidies and nutritional guidelines.
As the DOJ prohibits the use of the poultry tournament system for Cargill-Continental, Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell calls the settlement historic.
Farm Action is disappointed that DOJ did not block this merger, but applauds the agency for negotiating a historic consent decree backed by the authority of a court-appointed antitrust monitor.
Farm Action’s recommendations to the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health point out that food and farm policy is causing our health crisis.
As fertilizer prices remain at all-time highs and corporations reap record profits, Farm Action and 23 groups urged USDA to decentralize fertilizer production.