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    How US Policy Devastated Small Dairy Farms and Boosted Corporate Monopolies

    "Corporate consolidation is at the heart of our food system's dysfunction," said one policy analyst.

    Julia Conley
    Jan 31, 2023

    Food & Water Watch on Tuesday released an analysis of the U.S. dairy farming industry—the climate and food justice group's third in-depth report on the economic costs of food monopolies—revealing how corporate consolidation has helped push small family farms out of business over the past two decades, while worsening the climate emergency.

    In The Economic Cost of Food Monopolies: Dirty Dairy Racket, Food & Water Watch (FWW) explains how factors including the gutting of farm supply management policies and higher production costs have helped cause rapid consolidation in the dairy sector, with 70% of family-scale dairy farms shutting down between 1997 and 2007.

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    Let's Talk Turkey

    We face a momentous choice of whether to pursue a food future rooted in the ethic of sustainable agriCULTURE--or one based on the exploitative ethic of agriINDUSTRY.

    Jim Hightower
    Nov 24, 2022

    It's time to talk turkey!

    No, not the Butterball who just announced another bid for office. I'm talking about the real thing, the big bird, 46 million of which we Americans will devour on this Thanksgiving Day.

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    Green Schools Start With Greener Lunches: NYC Public Schools Are Plant-Based Leaders

    Plant-based advocates refer to meat reduction efforts as a sort of "Green New Meal"--an opportunity to teach students about the impacts of our current factory farm-dominated food system on our health, animals, and the environment.

    Vicky Bond
    Oct 26, 2022

    New York City public schools led the way on Meatless Monday--now it's time for other districts to follow.

    One person opting for a plant-based meal over a serving of meat one day per week for a year has the potential to save the equivalent carbon emissions of driving a car 348 miles.

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