Corporate Power Across the Food System
Giant corporations increasingly control America’s grain and vegetable systems. Learn more about how commodities – and related products, like beer – are grown, processed, and priced, and how speculation warps commodity markets.
The food system employs one out of every seven U.S. workers, but pays the least and abuses workers. Learn how concentration affects the people who prepare our food, pick our vegetables, and slaughter our livestock.
Just a few companies control what you buy at the grocery store and how much it costs. Learn how giant retailers keep and grow their power, and how mega food processors have come to dictate their supply chains.
Corporations at home and abroad grow by buying their rivals, rigging markets, and grabbing control of vital information. Learn how mergers & acquisitions, foreign ownership, and big data are reshaping our food system.
Regulations and policies ultimately shape the food system and enable corporate power. Read up on how big corporations manipulate food policy to their advantage, from organics to GMOs to checkoff tax programs.
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Egg corporations have too much power to exploit disruptions like bird flu to push up prices. Bird flu also hits harder on massive, consolidated farms: recent outbreaks on just 10 large farms could take out 18 million hens, or 6% of the U.S. egg laying population.