Large agribusiness corporations are squeezing the life out of both producers and consumers and posting record profits since gaining full control of processing and distribution. Corporations are literally consuming the entire system in their pursuit of double-digit Wall Street type returns. The abundance of American agriculture has long been taken for granted. Most Americans never imagined food availability and food safety would ever be a problem in America. Now it is.
Hunger is a rapidly growing problem in America and around the world.
Food safety problems and health concerns continue to grow. With food under the control of food cartels and monopolists like ADM, ConAgra, Cargill and IBP, only those able to pay will eat. These same multinational companies search the globe for the cheapest commodities and imported food to displace our domestic U.S. agriculture. While able to apply methods and practices illegal in the U.S., and without the high mandated U.S. costs of doing business, these unfair imports represent huge profits to importing companies while offering the consumer no savings. U.S. consumers are now paying record high prices for food while farmers and ranchers, those who produce the food, decline further into poverty.