https://competitivemarkets.com/packers-and-stockyards-act-nullified-by-judcial-activism-must-we-let-it-rest-in-peace/ Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:45:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://competitivemarkets.com/packers-and-stockyards-act-nullified-by-judcial-activism-must-we-let-it-rest-in-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-382 Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:45:13 +0000 http://ocm.srclabs.com/?p=384#comment-382 […] Corrupt courts, a bought Congress, and multiple administrations captured by industry have refused to protect our farming and food system from the predators we call Big Food. Divided by their differences and prejudices, farmers and ranchers have been easy prey in the no-rules-biggest-cheater-wins fool’s game we call a marketplace. Land grant universities have betrayed their mission of supporting land stewardship and animal husbandry, instead selling out to corporate interests. Once considered the voice of producers, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and National Pork Producers have been fully captured, putting meat packers’ interests over producers. Today’s industrial profit-over-people food system is wrecking the infrastructure that fed us, selling food that makes us sick, while degrading our land, consuming and wasting our valuable resources, exploiting workers and abusing our food animals. What can be done? […]

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