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.
Our latest blog tells the history of Kansas’ prosperous Black farmers, and how the present-day fight to reclaim that legacy will benefit all family farmers — in Kansas and beyond.
As of late 2019, foreign investors have held an interest in almost 35.2 million acres of U.S. farmland. That’s an area larger than the state of New York. In the past 17 years alone, foreign farmland holdings have doubled in the U.S. and the trend is showing no signs of slowing.
The fight to protect livestock and poultry producers from Big Ag monopolies is as important as it is complicated. We outline the effort to protect farmers and ranchers from corporate abuses, providing a one-stop shop for background, resources, and action steps.
Once upon a time, checkoff programs were voluntary and used money to provide producers with research, technological innovation, and market development to advance their products. But over time, checkoff programs have slid towards corruption.
How does our food make it from the farm fields to the table? The answer used to be simple, but in the past 100 years, it’s gotten a lot more complicated and increasingly hidden from the public eye.
Giant meatpackers like Cargill and JBS are the beneficiaries of billions of dollars of U.S. government subsidies. But they don’t get this money directly.
