TIME | How Food Companies’ Massive Profits Are Making Your Groceries More Expensive
Staggering costs for Americans at the grocery store are due to “the market concentration that allows for price gouging,” says Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.
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Staggering costs for Americans at the grocery store are due to “the market concentration that allows for price gouging,” says Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.
Checkoffs extract farmers’ money and funnel it “into the hands of trade and lobbying groups that work against fair competition and market transparency,” said Farm Action’s Angela Huffman.
Decades of farm bill programs have driven family farmers out of business and enabled a few giant corporations to dominate our food system, explains Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.
The USDA’s proposed “Product of U.S.A.” label rule would help “stop the cheaters picking the pockets of America’s farmers and ranchers,” said Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.
Farm Action and a coalition of organizations representing agriculture, health, faith, academia, conservation, labor, and animal welfare highlighted the need for agriculture policy reform in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. is faced with an historic trade deficit for produce and impending opportunities for farm system change. In a poll conducted by GQR on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, voters across the spectrum called for food, not feed.
Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell and Basel Musharbash shared evidence suggesting that dominant egg companies are using supply chain disruptions like the avian flu as an excuse to gouge consumers.
Willie Cade, a Farm Action Local Leader and right to repair advocate, is concerned Deere is only agreeing to the memorandum to publicly placate critics.
Fertilizer corporations blamed 2022’s record-breaking prices on market disruptions, but Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell says monopolistic practices are to blame.
USDA Secretary Vilsack should be helping U.S. corn farmers access a premium market, says Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.
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