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RT @FarmActionUS: Farm Action President Angela Huffman just exposed how corporate lobbyists captured the MAHA process and co-opted farmers’ voices. Bookmark this. “The MAHA assessment… called out corporate capture of our government agencies.” “Pesticides.” “Farm consolidation.” “The way that subsidies drive the production of unhealthy foods.” “But what happened after that?” “Secretary Kennedy reported meeting with 140 agribusiness lobbyists over the next three months.” “Bayer’s Modern Ag Alliance was a huge lobbying force during that time.” “They represent pesticide companies.” “By September, the MAHA strategy was released.” “It completely backed away from the issues that the government had said needed to be addressed.” “And after that came even more protections for Bayer.” “We saw President Trump invoke the Defense Production Act in an executive order to ramp up glyphosate production.” “The Trump administration went to the Supreme Court and advocated on behalf of Bayer for a pesticide liability shield.” And it’s not just MAHA that has been captured by industry. Farmers’ voices have been “co-opted” by corporate lobbyists. “Washington, D.C. too often accepts the voice of these corporate lobbyists as farmers’ voices.” “One example… every farmer has to pay into the checkoff when they sell their commodities or cattle.” “It’s a major USDA fund.” “It’s meant for marketing and research.” “But the USDA contracts the bulk of that money to lobbying organizations.” “Bayer’s Modern Ag Alliance that upended the MAHA movement, a third of their money comes from USDA checkoffs.” “The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, that’s the multinational meatpacker lobby, 70% of their budget is made up of USDA checkoff dollars.” “They’re taking the money from farmers to the government [and] giving it back to these lobby groups to lobby for policies against the farmers.” “The root issue is who speaks for farmers, who’s really benefiting from this.” “A seed company or meatpacker or chemical company, their interests are inherently not the same as farmers’ interests.” This panel was moderated by former Vice President Al Gore at the 2026 Climate Underground conference. @AngelaSHuffman @algore

RT @FarmActionUS: When egg prices skyrocketed, major egg companies blamed bird flu, and most economists and the media went along with it. Farm Action's President Angela Huffman didn't buy it. "We said we should look at this, because we've seen this before, and there might be something here." Once we looked, the math didn't add up. The egg-laying flock shrank only modestly, but prices jumped 138%. In January 2023, Farm Action called on federal enforcers to find the real culprit behind the price spike. Critics called it a conspiracy theory. Now the DOJ and 17 states allege three of the biggest egg companies coordinated for nearly three years to drive prices up. When a few giant corporations control a market, families at the grocery store and farmers on the ground pay the price. @AngelaSHuffman @politico

RT @FarmActionUS: Trump promised his beef import plan would bring big savings at the grocery store. 30 days in, ground beef prices have fallen less than 2%. Meanwhile, prices paid to American ranchers for their cows used in ground beef have dropped as much as 13.9%. Consumers are barely seeing relief, and ranchers are taking the hit. The U.S. cattle herd is already at historic lows, and this policy makes it even harder for ranchers to rebuild. And only about a third of the first round of imports has entered the U.S. so far, so the damage could get worse. You can't make beef affordable by undercutting the people who raise it.

RT @FarmActionUS: Farm Action President Angela Huffman has a simple message for the Department of Justice: Price fixing cannot become just another cost of doing business. The DOJ alleges major egg companies coordinated bids and sales in ways that helped manipulate the benchmark prices influencing what retailers and consumers paid for eggs. Executives were caught saying things as explicit as: “We are bidding up. Let’s hold it today.” “Strong bids, early and often.” “Let it rip.” Yet Farm Action estimates Cal-Maine’s total obligation under the proposed settlement would be just $2.8 million, only 0.23% of the $1.22 billion in profit the company reported in fiscal year 2025. If a company can make billions while facing only a relatively small penalty for alleged price fixing, the financial incentive to repeat the behavior doesn’t disappear. Meaningful deterrence requires consequences large enough that breaking the law can never be more profitable than following it.

RT @nanswift: Senate Ag Republicans plan to go it alone on a partisan farm bill later today. Weird that a "conservative" bill is so far from the reforms conservatives have long fought for.

RT @FarmActionUS: Data centers are being sold to rural America as the next great economic opportunity. Rural communities could use more investment, but that doesn’t mean every investment is a good deal. Farm Action President Angela Huffman is pushing back on the idea that communities should welcome massive data centers simply because they promise jobs and growth. These projects can consume enormous amounts of water and electricity, take farmland out of production, and require costly new infrastructure. Meanwhile, the number of permanent local jobs can be small compared to the resources these facilities demand. Farmers and rural residents should not be stuck with higher costs while some of the richest companies in the world expand their operations. Rural Americans deserve transparency, local control, and the right to decide which investments actually make their communities stronger.

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RT @FarmActionUS: The cyclospora lettuce outbreak is not a random, isolated accident. It exposes a much deeper problem. “Just four companies now supply more than half of the fresh-cut salad in the country.” “That’s why one problem, like a cyclospora outbreak, can quickly spread across so many states and impact so many people.” Farm Action President Angela Huffman says this outbreak is a symptom of the corporate control of our food system. And their control goes beyond just the food system. “We’re seeing also reporting on the influence that these handful of companies have when they get this large.” “For example, Taylor Farms has given over $1 million in campaign contributions to the current administration.” The solution is clear and simple: Invest in local and regional food producers and crack down on corporate monopolization. Huffman: “Michigan grows great lettuce this time of year.” “Yet many of our biggest restaurants and grocery stores are instead… getting their lettuce from these giant suppliers like Taylor Farms, who are sourcing their produce outside the country.” @wzmq19 @AngelaSHuffman @SophiaMurphyTV

RT @FarmActionUS: BREAKING: The Senate is on track to reject the Save Our Bacon Act. This disastrous bill was buried deep in the Farm Bill by massive corporations, like foreign-owned Smithfield. It would overturn California’s ban on gestation crates, which keep pregnant pigs locked in cages so small they can’t even turn around. And it would strip states of the right to set higher standards for food sold within their borders. Farm Action President Angela Huffman just published this op-ed in the Washington Examiner breaking down what’s at stake: California’s Prop 12 empowered family farms across America against Big Ag’s domination of the pork industry. It’s a voter-approved law that requires pork, eggs, and veal sold in California to meet higher animal welfare standards. Many family farms have adapted to meet Prop 12 standards, giving them a rare market advantage over corporate producers, who have instead spent their time fighting to overturn this groundbreaking law. Corporate producers already pushed the Supreme Court to overturn Prop 12 and failed. Now, Senator Roger Marshall, chairman of the MAHA Caucus, has withdrawn his support for the Save Our Bacon Act. And the Senate Ag Committee did not include it in the new Farm Bill draft. The full Senate should keep the Save Our Bacon Act out of the Farm Bill. This bill should help farmers stay in business. It should not be used to strip states of the right to set basic standards for food sold within their borders. @AngelaSHuffman @dcexaminer

RT @FarmActionUS: URGENT: Bayer-Monsanto is waging a propaganda war to trick Congress into giving them a pesticide liability shield. They’re even threatening to pull glyphosate off the US market if they don’t get their way. Meanwhile, farmers just want their rights. Farm Action President Angela Huffman just broke down why farmers’ lives and livelihoods are on the line with the 2026 Farm Bill: “This is personal for me.” “I live in farm country and raise sheep on my family farm.” “I was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer at 36.” “I cannot tell you exactly what caused my cancer.” “But I know what farmers, farmworkers and rural families live with every day.” “Chemical exposure is in the air on spray days.” “It is on equipment, trucks, clothes and skin.” Bayer, the German multinational corporation that owns Monsanto, and its allies are pushing Congress for a liability shield that would let pesticide companies dodge state lawsuits over their failure to warn about the known risks of their products. “Across the Corn Belt, cancer among young people is moving in the wrong direction.” In 2015, the Washington Post uncovered that “cancer rates among people ages 15 to 49 in the six leading corn-producing states have been higher than the national average.” And it’s not a stretch to link this rise to glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup. “In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as ‘probably carcinogenic to humans,’ citing evidence tied to non-Hodgkin lymphoma.” “Since then, scientists have raised broader concerns about… harms to the liver, kidneys, reproductive and endocrine systems to neurological health, and children’s health.” But this is the point that Congress needs to hear: “We do not need to settle every scientific debate in one Farm Bill to know this: Congress should not give pesticide companies immunity while serious questions remain about the safety of their products.” “If Congress wants to stand with farmers, it should reject pesticide immunity, protect state failure-to-warn claims and keep the courthouse doors open.” And it should meaningfully invest in “technical assistance that help farmers reduce chemical dependence without risking their livelihoods.” “If Bayer believes Roundup is safe, it can defend that in court.” @AngelaSHuffman @DailyCaller

Farmers did not create this chemical-dependent system. They should not be used as the excuse to give Bayer-Monsanto immunity. Read more:

RT @Matt_Dominguez: Hard hitting article by @voxdotcom report @KennyTorrella about @NPPC work to harm U.S. family farmers and voters for their Chinese overlords.

Famous animal welfare scientist Donald Broom said that confining pigs in gestation crates is “much worse than severely beating an animal.” So it says a lot that some meat industry groups, pork companies, and members of Congress are fighting to defend the practice. New story:

RT @mokanjim: Dear @realDonaldTrump @POTUS, Consumers can choose cheaper proteins instead of beef if prices get too high. But when Americans pull up to the gas pump, they have no alternative. Focus on lowering fuel prices instead of attacking cattle producers.”

RT @RepLuna: The only bacon the “Save Our Bacon Act” is actually saving is China’s. This isn’t just a states’ rights issue or an animal welfare issue, it’s a national security issue. China already controls roughly 25% of the American pork industry. Why would Congress pass legislation that further strengthens Beijing’s grip on America’s food supply?

I joined ABC News this evening to talk about why the Trump administration’s plan to import more beef is unlikely to lower consumer prices. The problem is not a lack of imported beef. The problem is lack of competition. Four meatpackers control 85% of U.S. beef processing, and a handful of grocery giants control the checkout line. When those few companies control the supply chain, it’s essentially a monopoly. They do not have to pass savings on to consumers. More imports could help global meatpackers while putting new pressure on U.S. ranchers, who are finally starting to recover after years of drought, high costs, and unfair markets. If we want lower beef prices for the long term, we have to break up monopoly power in the food system, starting with meatpackers and grocers.

RT @FarmActionUS: “They're in there right now, the Department of Justice, arguing on behalf of Bayer to take away our right to be protected from those chemicals.” The Trump administration says it wants to Make America Healthy Again, but behind closed doors it is fighting for foreign corporations to have immunity when their products harm Americans. That is not MAHA.  That is not America First.  We deserve better. @dcexaminer

RT @FarmActionUS: “So we say: GO HOME BAYER!” Farm Action President Angela Huffman says we must take a stand against Bayer and its onslaught of lobbying efforts across the country pushing for immunity from harm their products cause farmers. “Bayer is working every angle to get special protections from the government.” “They have pushed immunity bills in 15 states.” “They are in front of the Supreme Court right now.” “They are pushing this in Congress, right now.” “The White House has already stepped in on Bayer’s behalf.” “They’re threatening to pull glyphosate off the market.” “They want people to think our food supply is at risk if they don’t get immunity.” “It isn’t.” “A multinational corporation doesn’t get to hold the U.S. food system hostage just to escape accountability.”

RT @FarmActionUS: “The Trump administration promised a healthier food system, but they’re doing the opposite.” The current system leaves farmers with too few choices and too much dependence on expensive chemical inputs. Farm Action President Angela Huffman tells NewsNation that the administration is now backing Bayer-Monsanto in a Supreme Court case that could decide whether farmers and consumers can hold a company accountable for harming them. People were promised reform, but they’re seeing the same system defended. Bayer is holding our food supply hostage, and no corporation should have that kind of power. Farmers deserve support to move toward healthier soil and fewer expensive chemical inputs. And we all deserve accountability when harmful products cause damage. The administration should stand with farmers and families, not cave to corporate pressure.

RT @GlyphosateGirl: There are plenty of cowboy hat wearing farmers who have cancer, Parkinson’s, ALS - who don’t get funded by Bayer to march through Congress to beg for a liability shield for foreign chemical manufacturers. Disgusting.

Wow. Farm Action President Angela Huffman reveals that Bayer-Monsanto lobbyists dress up in “cowboy hats and big belt buckles” to trick Congress into thinking they represent farmers: “They’ve got a whole host of these corporate industry front groups that walk the halls every day of Washington DC… pretending to represent the interest of farmers, when they’re really there just for the sake of these huge consolidated pesticide companies, seed companies.” But we’re fighting back. We just filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court alongside a “coalition of farm groups and farm worker groups pushing back against Monsanto’s attempt to take away our rights to seek justice.” “We’re basically pushing back on Monsanto’s position that holding them accountable would threaten farmers’ ability to grow food.” “That’s the threat that they’re making.” And this Monday, Angela will stand alongside dozens of advocates, including Rep. Chellie Pingree and Rep. Thomas Massie, to urge the Supreme Court to protect farmers’ right to sue pesticide companies. Use the link below to find out everything you need to know about The People vs. Poison Rally:🧵 @AngelaSHuffman @holistichilda

RT @FarmActionUS: BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ is reportedly about to file an antitrust lawsuit against the biggest egg companies for alleged price gouging. This is a huge step for farmers and consumers. Our investigations exposed this price gouging and urged the Trump administration to take action last year. The lawsuit will reportedly target Cal-Maine Foods and Versova, both of which “significantly hiked egg prices in 2024 and 2025” due to an alleged “supply shortage attributed to avian flu.” These massive corporations have abused their market power to spike egg prices and make record profits in recent years, despite maintaining steady production throughout the avian flu outbreak. Farm Action President Angela Huffman declared: “For years, these corporations pointed to avian flu as justification for soaring egg prices, even as Farm Action’s investigation showed dominant firms were maintaining production while dramatically increasing prices and profits.” “We urge antitrust enforcers to hold these companies accountable to the fullest extent of the law.” “Anything less risks allowing dominant firms to continue treating penalties as the cost of doing business rather than a deterrent for cheating the American people on a grocery store staple.” @TheJusticeDept @AngelaSHuffman