Support the Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act

From seed to supermarket, our food and farm system is hyper-consolidated. A small number of major agribusiness, commodity processing, food manufacturing and supermarket firms control every link of the food chain. It’s time to safeguard farmers, workers, rural communities and consumers from the unfair and predatory practices of these monopolists.

U.S. Senators Cory Booker, Jon Tester, Jeff Merkley and Elizabeth Warren, and Representative Mark Pocan introduced the Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act. This critical legislation would place an immediate and indefinite moratorium on acquisitions and mergers in the food and agriculture sector.

Urge your members of Congress to support the Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act!

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I urge you to protect impacted farmers, rural communities, workers, consumers and the environment by supporting the Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act.

A small number of major agribusiness, commodity processing, food manufacturing and supermarket firms control every link of the food chain. And some of the biggest agribusiness and food mergers have happened in the past few years.

Farmers are left selling into an over-concentrated marketplace that has reduced the prices they receive for their crops and livestock, contributing to collapsing farm income. It’s time to safeguard farmers, workers, rural communities and consumers from the too-often unfair and predatory practices of these monopolists. 
 
The Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act would establish a commission to study how to strengthen antitrust oversight of the farm and food sectors, and publish recommended improvements to merger enforcement. Any mergers in the food system would be put on hold until Congress acts on the recommendations from the commission.  
 
This moratorium would provide much-needed time to develop new tools to strengthen merger enforcement, and antitrust rules to address the unique conditions in the farm and food economic sector and protect farmers, workers and consumers.

After decades of extreme consolidation in the food sector, it’s time to put a hold on large agribusiness mergers and acquisitions.

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