Farm Action

@FarmActionUS

We're farmers fighting for accountability from the government and the largest food and ag corporations.

Missouri

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Joined January 2020

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Farm Action
@FarmActionUS
Aug 21
Flooding the market with imported beef will hurt American ranchers without saving consumers money at the grocery store. President Trump just announced a plan to bring more lower-priced foreign beef into the U.S. in an effort to bring down grocery prices. Bringing in more
Farm Action
@FarmActionUS
Aug 21
Farmer Will Harris just said the quiet part out loud. Centralized industrial agriculture has completely hollowed out rural America. “Raw material was shipped from the town.” “Which is like sucking the money out.” “And then it became impoverished.” “The jobs went away.” But
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Farm Action
@FarmActionUS
Aug 21
“The benefit to the meatpackers today, when they do not have to disclose the origins of beef, is they can put beef in the meat counter from Brazil, Argentina… or from any one of the 20 countries we import beef from.” “And then they can sell that…right next to a domestic
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Farm Action
@FarmActionUS
Aug 20
“Four companies control about 85% of beef processing.” “Up from just about 36% in the 1970s.” The real reason for skyrocketing beef prices comes down to one core problem: A handful of corporations took control of the entire food industry. And they’ve put countless family
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Farm Action
@FarmActionUS
Aug 19
30,000 pounds of beef from Argentina were just recalled because it was “imported without going through a standard re-inspection process.” And consumers can’t even tell what’s from Argentina and what’s from the U.S. Why? Because we don’t have Mandatory Country-of-Origin
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