From GM Corn to Gestation Crate Pork, Big Government is Big Ag’s Best Sales Rep
Our government is supposed to represent its citizens and look out for our best interests. Instead, it bows to the monied interests of big business lobbyists.
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Our government is supposed to represent its citizens and look out for our best interests. Instead, it bows to the monied interests of big business lobbyists.
NCBA has rigged the checkoff contracting system to pour ranchers’ dollars into its own pockets.
Our team members are hard at work growing and raising healthy foods for their communities, and they’re excited to share updates from their farms.
Checkoff programs are banned from lobbying, yet checkoff boards are engaging in behavior clearly designed to influence government policy.
Independent grocers and farmers are driven out of business as mega-retailers take over, negatively impacting everyone except company shareholders.
NCBA receives the majority of ranchers’ checkoff dollars each year, but they spend that money helping corporate meatpackers instead of America’s ranchers.
The U.S. is bullying Mexico into accepting our GM corn on behalf of Big Ag monopolies, paralleling the circumstances that led to American independence.
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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