Crop Insurance: How the Big Farms Get Bigger
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.
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.
Hundreds gathered at the Food Not Feed Summit with a shared goal of establishing an agenda to shift federal farm programs toward food for people, not just feed for corporate-controlled livestock.
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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The USDA failed our farmers by forgoing an opportunity to help them transition to non-GM corn production with a strong market in sight. Instead, the USDA propped up agrochemical and seed corporations.
Meatpackers pay a pittance in settlements compared to the record profits they make off these pricing schemes. There must be serious consequences for corporations that get rich by cheating consumers.
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.
Corporations use misleading labels to sell generic products, deceiving customers into paying a premium for products that don’t actually align with their values.
Commodity groups and agrochemical companies deceive farmers into acting against their own best interest by centering the public conversation around yields instead of profits.