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Oct 5, 2020 · Anheuser-Busch, one of the biggest overall donors to PACs and lawmakers among food and beverage companies, along with Coca-Cola, sharply cut contributions from its PAC to Democrats by nearly ...
Last October, it failed again, by five votes. In between the two votes, a major merger took place that made the meat industry even more powerful on Capitol Hill. Tyson Foods, the giant poultry ...
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America’s farmers have become increasingly dependent on government aid. Farmers received $424.4bn in subsidies between 1995 and 2020, of which 49% were for just three crops: corn, wheat and soybeans, according to the Environmental Working Group. Corn subsidies are the largest by a long way – $116.6bn – accounting for 27% of the total. Very little c...
At least half of the 10 lowest-paid jobs in the US are in the food industry, and they rely disproportionately on federal benefits. Walmart and McDonald's are among the top employers of beneficiaries of food stamps and Medicaid, according to a 2020 studyby a non-partisan government watchdog. Even before the pandemic, farms were among the most danger...
About half of the planet’s land and 70% of freshwater withdrawals are for farming, which is increasingly industrialized. Industrial agriculture is focussed on extracting maximum profits for minimum costs – an exploitative model with grave consequences for animal welfare, water, land and global heating. Agriculture is responsible for more than a qua...
In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon’s agriculture secretary told farmersto “get big or get out”. This investigation has examined the far-reaching consequences of government support - political and economic - for big corporations that now dominate every part of the food chain. Last week Joe Biden signed an executive order to tackle the rampant con...
Mar 10, 2022 · The legislation represents the first real test of meat conglomerates’ political power since President Joe Biden took office and vowed to crack down on their control of the market. If passed, it ...
Feb 27, 2019 · From a political-economic perspective, then, consumption of meat—of food animals—is inherently contentious; it is a political affair (Neo and Emel 2017).Accordingly, the political economy of meat most notably entails conflict; it comprises resistance to dominant economic arrangements, counter movements that struggle for equality and autonomy across the food chain (Lundström 2018; Williams ...
- Markus Lundström
- Markus.lundstrom@ekohist.su.se
- 2019
METHODOLOGY: The numbers on this page are based on contributions of $200 or more from PACs and individuals to federal candidates and from PACs, soft money (including directly from corporate and union treasuries) and individual donors to political parties and outside spending groups, as reported to the Federal Election Commission.
During the 2020 election cycle, the food industry spent $175m on political contributions, including lobbying by PACs and individuals and other efforts. Until the 1990s, most people shopped in local or regional grocery stores. Now, just four companies – Walmart, Costco, Kroger and Ahold Delhaize – control 65% of the retail market.
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