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-…
The Obama administration proposed new rules that would have helped farmers to seek justice under the Packers & Stockyards Act, but the Trump administration quickly withdrew them and dissolved the agency dedicated to enforcing the law foodandpower.net/2018/12/06/tru…
Now, Trump’s USDA has proposed its own set of rules that could make matters even worse. In @CivilEats @rafiusa said “Rather than protecting farmers from well-documented abuse, this rule codifies it.” civileats.com/2020/01/17/new…
Submit a comment here if you want to see the Packers & Stockyards Act restored to its intent - to protect farmers from abuses by corporate meatpackers federalregister.gov/documents/2020…
If you are a farmer - how will this proposed rule impact you, your family, and your business? How have you already faced #CorporateExploitation or retaliation from #BigAg companies? Share your story with USDA (comments can be anonymous)
The deadline to submit comments is March 13th!
