Warren proposes breaking up Big Agriculture
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling for the breakup of what she says are unfair farming monopolies.
Warren says family farms struggle because ” bad decisions in Washington have consistently favored the interests of multinational corporations and big business lobbyists over the interests of family farmers. ”
If elected president, the Democratic lawmaker says she’d appoint regulators to review and reverse some mergers among farming corporations. She singled out Bayer-Monsanto as a merger that ” should never have been approved. ”
Warren also proposes breaking up ” vertically-integrated ” agribusinesses – those, like Tyson, that control multiple levels of production and processing of a product.
The policy proposals come just days before Warren will appear at a presidential forum hosted by the Iowa Farmer’s Union.
She also has called for the breakup of mammoth technology firms.
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