During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, corporate meat giant Tyson Foods Inc. stoked fears about a fictional meat shortage in order to keep its plants operating – putting public health and the lives of their workers at risk.
Now Tyson is getting ready to make things even worse for consumers with a scheme to expand its meat monopoly with 12 more meat plants by 2024.
We know that more meat plants = more pollution = more destruction of rural communities and more consolidation of our food system. Ultimately, that means we all pay higher prices at the grocery store. We can’t let this stand.
Legal and policy failures have allowed a handful of giant corporations to gain a stranglehold on our food system. They use this power to lobby for weaker animal welfare and environmental protections, weaker rules for worker safety and less enforcement of the rules that keep consumers safe.
But there’s a better way. We need a food system that rewards sustainable, diversified farms – farms that treat animals humanely, build rural communities, value workers and respect consumers.
Weeks ago Senator Cory Booker and Representative Ro Khanna reintroduced the Farm System Reform Act. This legislation will:
Ban all new and expanding factory farms
Transition existing factory farms to smaller, diversified operations
Restore fairness to livestock markets so independent family farmers can make a fair living raising animals the right way
We know we need to build pressure to pass this bill. Corporations like Tyson have too much money and influence. But passing ambitious farm system legislation is something Food & Water Action — and you — have been working to do for years. We’ve been organizing, speaking out and rallying across the country, all to protect our environment and communities.
Food & Water Action and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Watch, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water and climate.
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