Retail Consolidation: Crisis Across the Food Chain
Independent grocers and farmers are driven out of business as mega-retailers take over, negatively impacting everyone except company shareholders.
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Independent grocers and farmers are driven out of business as mega-retailers take over, negatively impacting everyone except company shareholders.
Angela Huffman has spent more than a decade advocating for policies that break up corporate food monopolies and build fair competition in rural America.
Farm Action is “leading the charge” to reshape the farm bill so that it prioritizes the production of food for people — instead of feed for corporate-controlled livestock.
So few firms control so much of our food system that “the basic supply and demand market dynamics cannot function,” said Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell. And now consumers are paying the price.
Caving to the corporate meatpacking lobby, House Appropriators included a harmful provision preventing USDA from leveling the playing field for farmers.
This decision is a win for family farmers who see prop 12 as a lifeline to stay in business, says Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.
“Proposition 12 is a lifeline for farmers working to feed their communities and stay in business,” said Joe Maxwell, president of Farm Action and Missouri hog farmer.
NCBA receives the majority of ranchers’ checkoff dollars each year, but they spend that money helping corporate meatpackers instead of America’s ranchers.
Farm Action’s Joe Van Wye said any increases in Price Loss Coverage reference prices will ultimately be captured by just a few large corporations, and urged Congress to tackle monopoly power instead.
“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.