DOJ Comes Out on Top With Tournament System Ban: Time for USDA to Step Up
The DOJ beat the USDA to the punch on reforming the poultry market by banning the tournament system for 15% of the market. The USDA needs to ban it entirely.
The DOJ beat the USDA to the punch on reforming the poultry market by banning the tournament system for 15% of the market. The USDA needs to ban it entirely.
We released our report card grading the Biden administration’s work to address monopoly power in the food system at an event in Washington, D.C.
Three years after Tyson’s Holcomb KS plant fire, Big Meat is still using it as an example of a supply chain disruption — but this excuse just provides cover while they reap excessive profits.
Our two founders go head-to-head with powerful meatpacking behemoths in very public battles over the truth about the food and farm system.
Farm Action and its partners told the USDA that they can and should act without further delay to help farmers and ranchers escape from under the thumb of corporate monopolies.
Farm Action’s FTC complaint has triggered a formal investigation into John Deere’s abusive equipment repair restrictions, according to the Capitol Forum.
Congress is poised to take money away from critical rural development and food security programs at the USDA. We won’t give it up without a fight.
Prompted by Farm Action and others, USDA is slowly moving to review its labeling policies. Learn more about this issue and what we’re doing about it.
While funding is an important first step, Farm Action will continue urging swift action to complete the remaining steps and break the corporate stranglehold.
Farm Action has been invited to testify before the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust at a hearing on the state of food system concentration.