Family Farmers Applaud Biden’s Commitment to National Agriculture Day and Urge Further Action for Independent Decentralized Food System (March 22, 2022) – In recognition of National Agriculture Day, President Biden has issued a proclamation highlighting his...
Cattle and grain farmer and MRCC member Darvin Bentlage explain the negative consequences of the corporate consolidation of our food system while pointing out some rays of hope such as the American Beef Labeling Act. Even though the cards are often stacked against us,...
Farmer and MRCC member Susan Williams’ letter-to-the-editor in the Boonville Daily News. “In the US Senate, a bipartisan group of senators introduced The American Beef Labeling Act (Senate Bill 2716) which would reenact mandatory COOL by requiring that all...
Take Action to Support Country of Origin Labeling TODAY! Sign Our Petition! Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) for meat was passed in the 2008 Farm Bill and was immediately opposed by the multi-national meatpackers. At the bidding of corporate Ag, the World Trade...
The risks of our highly consolidated processing system may have come to light for many during the pandemic, but these consequences aren’t new. For decades, Missouri Rural Crisis Center has heard from our members who raise livestock about the limited options for...
So where is the money consumers are paying going, if not back to the farmers? Gibbons said he knows exactly where the money is going. “It’s the corporate agriculture business and the big multi-national corporate and foreign meat packing industry. At the expense of...
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