Mother Jones magazine: on Corporations
Bernie Sanders:
Defend farmers & consumers from corporate middlemen
Sanders, for his part, published an op-ed in the Des Moines Register [and] denounced Bayer's Monsanto buyout, adding that "when we are in the White House, we are going to strengthen antitrust laws that defend farmers
from the corporate middlemen that stand between the food grower and the consumer, and have now become so big and powerful that they can squeeze farmers for everything they're worth."
Source: Mother Jones magazine on 2020 Democratic primary
Mar 30, 2019
Elizabeth Warren:
Breakup online monopolies; wealth shouldn't be concentrated
During her time onstage Warren discussed her proposal to break up big, powerful tech companies like Facebook,
Google, and Amazon. "The monopolist will make fewer monopoly profits--boo hoo," she said of those who stand to lose money from her plan.
Source: Mother Jones mag.: 2019 SXSW for 2020 presidential hopefuls
Mar 1, 2019
Elizabeth Warren:
End "integrated" farming favoring corporations over farmers
Warren declared, "It all starts with attacking consolidation in the agriculture sector head on." Meat giants like Tyson and Smithfield are "vertically integrated"--meaning they both slaughter livestock and tightly control the process for raising
them. "My administration will bring vertical integration cases to break up integrated agribusinesses," she wrote. She added that "contract chicken farming has already squeezed farmers to the breaking point. To stop the spread of that practice,
I believe we should prohibit abusive contract farming in the livestock sector." Bernie Sanders added that "when we are in the White House, we are going to strengthen antitrust laws that defend farmers from the corporate middlemen
that stand between the food grower and the consumer, and have now become so big and powerful that they can squeeze farmers for everything they're worth."
Source: Mother Jones magazine on 2020 Democratic primary
Mar 30, 2019
Marcia Fudge:
Co-sponsored Dodd-Frank exemption for some corporate trades
Reps. Gwen Moore and Marcia Fudge cosponsored the Inter-Affiliate Swap Clarification Act along with two Republicans. Moore and Fudge's bill would allow certain derivatives that are traded among a corporation's various affiliates to be
exempt from almost all new Dodd-Frank regulations. Fudge advocated for the bill "because it came at request of corporations and businesses in our district," says Belinda Prinz, a spokeswoman for the congresswoman.
Source: Mother Jones magazine on USDA Biden Cabinet
Apr 3, 2013
Tom Vilsack:
For plan to partially privatize slaughterhouse inspections
Back in 2012, the department floated a plan to partially privatize its inspection of the chicken industry's slaughterhouses. Vilsack promoted the move, declaring before a House subcommittee that the plan "will allow the poultry industry to continue to
be profitable, and allow us [the USDA] to save some money as well." Indeed, the department boasted the speedup would save $256.6 million in costs--a windfall that would have accrued mainly to four large companies.
Source: Mother Jones magazine on USDA Biden Cabinet
Dec 9, 2020
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