Farm Action Applauds Justice for Black Farmers Act Reintroduction
Farm Action applauds the reintroduction of the Justice for Black Farmers Act and stands in support of the sponsoring Senators and lead organizations.
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Farm Action applauds the reintroduction of the Justice for Black Farmers Act and stands in support of the sponsoring Senators and lead organizations.
This comprehensive Act is a major overhaul of existing anti-monopoly law, taking aim at the growing stranglehold a few corporations have over our markets and economy.
A coalition of national and regional research, policy, and advocacy organizations filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission today arguing that Smithfield, the nation’s largest pork producer, routinely makes false and misleading claims about the sustainability of its pork products and the company’s environmental record.
Farm Action released a comprehensive toolkit for the 117th Congress to tackle the dangerous levels of consolidation in today’s food system.
Congress listened to the concerns of farmers, ranchers, and rural communities as they drafted the latest version of COVID-19 relief. Many of the grants, payments, and regulatory changes in this legislation will help working families, small businesses and farmers get through a difficult time.
Farm Action recommends broader checkoff reforms can be implemented that truly benefit farmers and ranchers: a return to a voluntary point of sale checkoff to allow farmers, ranchers and producers to opt into checkoff payments as they could when the programs were first established.
Farm Action and allies request an FTC investigation of Cargill for making false and misleading claims about its turkey products.
Senators Booker, Warren, and Gillibrand filed the Justice for Black Farmers Act of 2020. This bill takes up issues at the heart of historic racial discrimination in U.S. agriculture.
Our special report provides the latest updated data on the state of concentration in the agrifood system, and outlines what happens when a few hands control the way billions of consumers, farmers, and farmworkers work and eat.
Farm Action submitted public comments to the USDA addressing the Proposed Rulemaking to expand the list of generic statements a company can make on a food label without those statements being approved by FSIS.