Consolidation and globalization in the food industry have reached a point where the top four firms in almost every sector have acquired abusive levels of power. This corporate control has allowed the top firms to reap record profits, paying lower prices to the farmers who produce our food and charging higher prices to consumers on the retail side. The U.S. is losing farmers at an alarming rate, agricultural jobs and wages are drying up, and rural communities are disappearing. These problems can be mitigated by reining in corporations and their economic power, allowing an opportunity for U.S. farmers and ranchers to compete in fair and open markets.
Read Our 2017 Policy Brief: Consolidation, Globalization, and the American Family Farm
Still the best… Governmental science has been “re-oriented”. If possible, I’d like to send your crew a meeting hand-out that has recent references. I’ll be up-dating it next week for the next set of meetings.