https://competitivemarkets.com Tue, 11 Dec 2018 20:44:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/competitivemarkets.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-logo-square.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://competitivemarkets.com 32 32 41386461 https://competitivemarkets.com/america-returns-to-the-jungle/ Sat, 12 Dec 2015 17:41:07 +0000 http://competitivemarkets.com/?p=3198

A safe and secure food supply is essential to a free society The United States was always able to feed itself. Except for a few non-essentials like coffee, tea and bananas, we were self-sufficient. The British government, along with their corporate partner, the East India Company, saw unlimited potential to extract wealth through the American colonies. Our Founding Fathers, willing to fight for our freedom and sovereignty, risked their lives and the lives of many citizens, to save Read More ...]]> 3198 https://competitivemarkets.com/the-end-of-the-trail-for-family-ranchers-lunch-with-louden-7312014/ Fri, 01 Aug 2014 03:09:17 +0000 http://competitivemarkets.com/?p=2868 Read More ...]]> 2868 https://competitivemarkets.com/special-report-the-end-of-the-trail-how-government-destroyed-free-markets-for-family-ranchers/ https://competitivemarkets.com/special-report-the-end-of-the-trail-how-government-destroyed-free-markets-for-family-ranchers/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:27:56 +0000 http://competitivemarkets.com/?p=2846

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack’s inaction has led to the near-destruction of American family ranchers. Over 17,000 family ranches will disappear this year. Over 100,000 family ranchers have left the profession since 2009. It’s a tragedy as world-renowned American beef experiences record-high prices, grocery retailers seize increasing shares of beef dollars, meat packers manipulate the beef market and prices paid to ranchers, and the ranchers are denied the rewards resulting from raising the best cattle in the world. Read More ...]]> https://competitivemarkets.com/special-report-the-end-of-the-trail-how-government-destroyed-free-markets-for-family-ranchers/feed/ 2 2846 https://competitivemarkets.com/robber-barons-return-u-s-becoming-beggar-nation%e2%80%a8/ Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:43:23 +0000 http://www.competitivemarkets.com/?p=2197

As Big Food’s tentacles wind tighter around markets and governments, OCM fights on From seed to plate, a handful of global corporations have combined their power to extract unprecedented amounts of resources and wealth. Even Upton Sinclair* couldn’t have predicted that today our nation’s four largest meat packers would control over 85% of the market. Surely even he would be surprised to find the biggest companies in all three major meat categories— beef, pork, and poultry—now foreign owned! Read More ...]]> 2197 https://competitivemarkets.com/animal-welfare-vs-worker-welfare/ Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:52:24 +0000 http://www.competitivemarkets.com/?p=1266

In early 2008 the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) released a video showing workers at a California slaughterhouse using electric prods on cattle unable to stand on their own (called downers) and ramming them with forklifts to make them stand for inspection. (Federal law requires that animals be able to walk into the slaughterhouse, and downed cattle are banned from human consumption because inability to stand may be a symptom what is commonly called mad cow Read More ...]]> 1266