Food Reporter for @OpenMarkets, writer of @foodandpower, proud @NonprofitUnion and @FSP_NWU member, she/her. Opinions are my own
Minneapolis, MN
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As mega-dairies continue expanding across the country, policymakers face a choice about the future of the dairy industry: do we want a few, massive, national operators to control dairy production, or do we want to maintain dispersed, family-scale dairy farms?
MDA's comment period followed recent state and county decisions to permit Minnesota's largest dairy operator, Riverview, to expand their West River location in Morris from 7,855 cows to 18,855 cows foodandpower.substack.com/p/…
Organizers and farmer-members at @LSPnow have been leading efforts to protect family-scale dairy farms and evaluate mega-dairy expansion in Minnesota landstewardshipproject.org/a…
A national dairy business, Riverview, is building massive farms upwards of 60x larger than the average U.S. dairy farm. Farmers, environmentalists, and rural organizers in MN are fighting against risky industry consolidation and asking for policy action
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Tens of millions do not make enough and cannot get by without direct public assistance or, worse, predatory credit like payday and title loans. A universally affordable future requires the politically difficult but urgent work of reining in the oligarchs.
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A real affordability agenda unites stronger antitrust and other forms of business regulation, direct public provisioning of necessities, and policies that raise wages.
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still processing that the AG of *Iowa* told the Supreme Court that when the federal government plus "authorities" of "major countries" like
China
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
France
Serbia
Ukraine
Slovenia
Mexico
Brazil
okay a merger, other states... like *Iowa*... can NOT challenge it
Most politicians say that they want to help people afford their lives, but what really matters is how. For @DissentMag, @sandeepvaheesan and I argue that any "affordability" agenda must challenge corporate pricing power, not worker power. dissentmagazine.org/online_a…
Meanwhile food corporations across meat, eggs, sugar, even frozen french fries, have been credibly accused of colluding to restrict output, share sensitive information, and rig price indexes to raise prices and profits. Policymakers should police this corporate abuse, not workers
Lower prices is just one side of the affordability equation, fair wages is the other. We present a holistic vision of affordability that includes corporate regulation, public investment in & provisioning of essentials, and policies to raise labor income dissentmagazine.org/online_a…
Claire Kelloway retweeted
We’re living in a period of excess business pricing power, not overbearing workers. As we seek solutions that systematically help all people meet their needs, we can learn from when the country last faced a sustained affordability crisis in the 1970s.
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Taylor Farms and other large produce corporations have long exerted political power to weaken food safety regulations. The consequences are now hitting home in the largest foodborne illness outbreak in three decades. @clairekelloway
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While still uncertain, the FDA links the largest cyclospora outbreaks to lettuce from produce giant Taylor Farms.
Foodborne illnesses hit harder when a few companies control much of the food supply and corporate influence threatens food safety standards
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At @openmarkets event @osbornforne calls out Tyson for shuttering meatpacking plants and paying tens of millions to settle price-fixing allegations
"We have to stop looking left and right and we have to start looking up, because the consolidation of our industries, private equity buying up our farmland, these are the ones hurting Americans" - @osbornforne
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Watch now:
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