Make food more equitable through antitrust laws
From destroying perfectly good food due to supply chain bottlenecks, to farmworkers risking their lives in the fields for poverty-level wages, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore our food system's rigid, wasteful and exploitative nature.
Given President Biden's recent order to review supply chains, with those in agriculture included, now is the time to consider using our country's antitrust laws to help make our food system more resilient, equitable and competitive.
More to the point, enforcing these laws, namely, the progressive-era Sherman, Clayton and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Acts, authorize government officials to break up corporations that monopolize markets to restrain trade and suppress dynamic competition, as well as conduct wide-sweeping investigations of the potential negative effects of mergers.
A survey of the field - yes, pun intended - shows increasing corporate control that does nothing to counter rampant waste and exploitation.
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