Exposed: Billionaire Egg Baron Pays Contract Farmers Just 26 Cents Per Dozen
The largest egg corporations are raking in profits as prices soar, but how are contract farmers getting along? As it turns out, not well.
The largest egg corporations are raking in profits as prices soar, but how are contract farmers getting along? As it turns out, not well.
Farm Action released a statement and informational memo in reaction to USDA’s latest Egg Markets Overview report and the recent decline in egg prices.
Farm Action’s letter to FTC and DOJ lays out new evidence on how the highly concentrated egg industry is ripe for manipulation by the dominant egg firms at the expense of both consumers and smaller egg producers.
There is a solution, and it’s now in the hands of President Donald Trump—who campaigned on lowering prices—to do something about it.
Farm Action’s letter to FTC and DOJ lays out new evidence on how the highly concentrated egg industry is ripe for manipulation by the dominant egg firms at the expense of both consumers and smaller egg producers.
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