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Big Food Makes Big Ag Look Like a Piker
Posted on May 6, 2022
If you think Big Ag has too few suppliers, too few buyers, and too few farmers and ranchers, you need to meet Big Food. It is big-time big.
Who is Big Food?
That straightforward question was tackled by academics, journalists, and legal professionals in a day-long conference on March 12, titled “Reforming America’s Retail Food Markets,” at […]
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May 13, 2022 at 9:35am
So much amorality going on in this total capture of fed & state gov’t by Big Meat during Pandemic Spring 2020 that it’s hard to keep up each sides’ immorality. https://t.co/pC9mVaU9oF
So much amorality going on in this total capture of fed & state gov’t by Big Meat during Pandemic Spring 2020 that it’s hard to keep up each sides’ immorality. https://t.co/pC9mVaU9oF
April 29, 2022 at 9:51am
This: The Pork Checkoff cut mandatory rates by 12.5% in hope the savings would voluntarily flow into CAFO-supporting lawsuits by Big Pig for Big Pig. Does Big Ag ever think about what the public-its customers-want? Terrible plan, great reporting. https://t.co/3UOTixbqrf
This: The Pork Checkoff cut mandatory rates by 12.5% in hope the savings would voluntarily flow into CAFO-supporting lawsuits by Big Pig for Big Pig. Does Big Ag ever think about what the public-its customers-want? Terrible plan, great reporting. https://t.co/3UOTixbqrf
April 29, 2022 at 5:27am
Exactly @donpcarr: Not one idea old or new in this trope-filled sermon of meaninglessness. The real message here is that Big Ag will fight for Big Ag in climate change debates & everyone else needs to butt out. https://t.co/MhmHdEdpAX
Exactly @donpcarr: Not one idea old or new in this trope-filled sermon of meaninglessness. The real message here is that Big Ag will fight for Big Ag in climate change debates & everyone else needs to butt out. https://t.co/MhmHdEdpAX
April 28, 2022 at 9:32am
There’s little that’s cheap in America’s ‘cheap,’ food system. Someone or something-like gov’t or our natural world-always pays yet rarely is acknowledged. That’s especially so in the highly industrialized meat & poultry sectors. https://t.co/8nWLlCSR9p
There’s little that’s cheap in America’s ‘cheap,’ food system. Someone or something-like gov’t or our natural world-always pays yet rarely is acknowledged. That’s especially so in the highly industrialized meat & poultry sectors. https://t.co/8nWLlCSR9p
April 26, 2022 at 9:52am
What he didn’t say is Tyson’s profits are 140% higher this quarter than yr ago. Over same period, meat demand isn’t up 140%, farm prices aren’t up 140% and inflation isn’t up 140%. Only Tyson profits-and its corporate BS-are up 140%. https://t.co/s7frvmdeky
What he didn’t say is Tyson’s profits are 140% higher this quarter than yr ago. Over same period, meat demand isn’t up 140%, farm prices aren’t up 140% and inflation isn’t up 140%. Only Tyson profits-and its corporate BS-are up 140%. https://t.co/s7frvmdeky