Meatpacking’s Monopoly and Why Your “Choices” Are an Illusion
From beef to dips, a handful of giant corporations control what looks like variety at the store — wielding power that squeezes farmers, inflates prices, and hides the truth behind labels.
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Sewage sludge poisoning America’s farmland
Toxic biosolids are being sold as fertilizer, despite lurking chemical dangers that regulators have ignored.
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The Economic Cost of Food Monopolies: The Grocery Cartels
From pandemic windfalls to decades of mergers, America’s grocery giants have tightened their grip on food retail — driving up prices, squeezing farmers, and leaving communities with fewer choices.
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ECB chief uses climate scare to push for economic redesign
Christine Lagarde claims climate change requires remaking Europe’s entire financial system — another step in using “green” narratives to centralize control.
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Unelected EU agriculture chief demands sustainable overhaul
Even as Europe faced growing farm protests, Brussels pushed a new “strategic dialogue” to force farms into green production that many say will cost small producers.
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Rethinking USDA food aid: from pandemic stopgaps to lasting solutions
A new analysis of U.S. nutrition spending shows how ad hoc pandemic programs, weak school meal standards, and loophole funding have fueled poor health outcomes — and lays out reforms to align food aid with real need.
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The hidden math of meat consolidation
A study using 30 years of data shows how consolidation and ownership changes have reshaped regional livestock markets and raised fresh concerns about anticompetitive behavior.
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Finding a Way to Sell Food Locally to Schools or Other Institutions
Read about a practical model for connecting local producers with local kids.
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Helping Farmers Sell Locally | Protecting Our Food Supply | Public Advocacy | Regulatory Impediments | Saving Family Farms
How MAHA can deliver real food reform — five priorities for action
From procurement power to chemical exposure and meat labeling, these are the structural changes Farm Action says the Commission can’t afford to ignore.
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Ultra-processed foods are everywhere
When your snack has more than 20 ingredients, you might not be eating food so much as eating a chemical cocktail.
