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The USDA is siding with corporate meatpackers over farmers in a proposed Packers & Stockyards Act rule. If you are concerned about fair treatment and protections for livestock farmers, please submit a comment to the USDA: federalregister.gov/documents/2020… 
Congress passed the Packers & Stockyards Act to curb the power of monopolistic meatpackers and establish #FairMarkets in the livestock industry. But decades of pro-business court rulings have gutted the law takebackthecourt.today/scotus-undermi…
Farmers fear retaliation for speaking up about mistreatment and abuse by powerful packers who control their key factors of success and pick winners and losers. Corporate packers have targeted farmer advocates and Black farmers propublica.org/article/how-a-…
