“We welcome USDA’s steps toward upholding farmers’ rights to hold abusive corporate meatpackers accountable,” said Farm Action’s Sarah Carden.
USDA’s proposed rule helps free poultry growers from poultry companies’ abusive measures of control, Farm Action said.
Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell will draw from the organization’s research to call for the U.S. government to crack down on corporate price gouging.
“We have a key window of opportunity this month to push for legislation to enact meaningful food system reform,” said Farm Action’s Angela Huffman.
“FTC’s final rule removes a key mechanism of exploitation and corporate control over U.S. workers,” said Angela Huffman, President of Farm Action.
“The Enough Is Enough Tour is a unified platform for farmers and ranchers to voice the disastrous impacts of the current system on their lives and livelihoods, and to demand reforms that bring prosperity and fair competition to agriculture,” said Farm Action’s Angela Huffman.
“It’s time to join the movement and demand that our government allows farmers the opportunity to prosper with a level playing field instead of picking winners and losers in the marketplace,” said Farm Action’s Angela Huffman.
Offering more federal support to America’s fruit and vegetable farmers will secure our food supply, said Farm Action.
“These are long, hard fights that are measured in years — but today’s ‘Product of U.S.A.’ labeling win shows that our efforts were worth it,” said Joe Maxwell.
USDA’s newly finalized rule helps put teeth back into a critical livestock producer protection law, Farm Action said.