In a public comment, Farm Action commended the Justice Department for putting a stop to corporate abuse and taking a critical step toward restoring competition in poultry markets.
Instead of pouring funding into high-tech projects that don’t demonstrably reduce carbon or improve environmental conditions (but do give corporations good talking points for their ads), we should be supporting grassroots and farmer-led conservation and regeneration initiatives.
The National Strategy aims to implement policy solutions for this crisis, and includes several measures recommended by Farm Action.
Farm Action’s comments to the USDA state that any ranking system that lacks a fixed base price violates the law. “Unfairness is at the rotten heart of the tournament system, which punishes farmers for circumstances that only the corporations control,” said Farm Action’s Sarah Carden.
Farm Action joined other advocates in laying out core values that must be reflected in the upcoming legislation, which has the power to reshape the food system.
The tournament system is intrinsically unfair because it lacks a base price guarantee. Furthermore, growers’ bonuses are not paid by the company, but are instead docked from other growers’ paychecks.
Farm Action is disappointed that DOJ did not block this merger, but applauds the agency for negotiating a historic consent decree backed by the authority of a court-appointed antitrust monitor.
Farm Action’s recommendations to the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health point out that food and farm policy is causing our health crisis.
Farm Action and 23 allied organizations issued an urgent call to decentralize fertilizer production ahead of a global food crisis.
We’ve published a straightforward guide to break the mold of past farm bills. If Congress made the changes recommended by our Fair Farm Bill Policy Handbook, they could create a fair, inclusive, and competitive food and farm system.
