Who Controls Your Food Supply?
March 18, 2010 10:07 AM Filed in: ACTION ALERTS
Did you know that just one company, Monsanto, controls more than 90% of the soybeans grown in the United States? And that they also control more than 80% of U.S. corn?
This extreme concentration of power is not unique to corn and soy. And it’s a big problem — not just for family farmers struggling to compete. Standing between you and the family farmer are a handful of corporations who control our entire food system from seed to plate.
It's time to change who controls our food system and we need your help to do it. Tell the government that you trust family farmers — not agribusiness corporations — with your food!
Corporate concentration has many forms — factory farms, the dairy crisis, genetically engineered food — anything that puts the control of our food into the hands of a few companies and forces farmers out of business and off the land. These issues are finally getting attention — last week, the first in a series of public workshops was held by the Department of Justice and the US Department of Agriculture.
Thanks to Farm Aid supporters like you, family farmers got a chance to speak at these hearings. They told the Department of Justice how corporate concentration threatens their ability to make a decent living. Farm Aid staff attended the meeting as well, and I can say that it was a step in the right direction.
Now, we need your support to keep the momentum going as more hearings take place across the country throughout 2010. Tell Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack that corporate concentration in agriculture is devastating for family farmers, bad for our health, and wrong for consumers like you and me!
This is an historic opportunity for farmers who have been marginalized by agribusiness giants. The government needs to hear from people like you, people who trust the farmers who grow our food — not corporations facing anti-trust investigation.
Please, take a moment right now to tell Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack that corporate control has created a food system that lines the pockets of a handful of companies — while bankrupting family farmers and leaving the rest of us hungry for change.
This extreme concentration of power is not unique to corn and soy. And it’s a big problem — not just for family farmers struggling to compete. Standing between you and the family farmer are a handful of corporations who control our entire food system from seed to plate.
It's time to change who controls our food system and we need your help to do it. Tell the government that you trust family farmers — not agribusiness corporations — with your food!
Corporate concentration has many forms — factory farms, the dairy crisis, genetically engineered food — anything that puts the control of our food into the hands of a few companies and forces farmers out of business and off the land. These issues are finally getting attention — last week, the first in a series of public workshops was held by the Department of Justice and the US Department of Agriculture.
Thanks to Farm Aid supporters like you, family farmers got a chance to speak at these hearings. They told the Department of Justice how corporate concentration threatens their ability to make a decent living. Farm Aid staff attended the meeting as well, and I can say that it was a step in the right direction.
Now, we need your support to keep the momentum going as more hearings take place across the country throughout 2010. Tell Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack that corporate concentration in agriculture is devastating for family farmers, bad for our health, and wrong for consumers like you and me!
This is an historic opportunity for farmers who have been marginalized by agribusiness giants. The government needs to hear from people like you, people who trust the farmers who grow our food — not corporations facing anti-trust investigation.
Please, take a moment right now to tell Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack that corporate control has created a food system that lines the pockets of a handful of companies — while bankrupting family farmers and leaving the rest of us hungry for change.
