Friends of the Earth is excited to share a new report, Feeding Concentration: How USDA’s Commodity Food Purchasing Favors Industrial Agriculture, highlighting how USDA’s $4.8B in annual food purchasing perpetuates consolidation, favors industrial agribusinesses, and sidelines independent and sustainable producers.
Register here to join us for a webinar on the new report on Friday, December 12 at 12:00 PM ET. Help us amplify this report using our social media toolkit or by sharing our posts on X, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.
This report is being released leading up to the reintroduction of the EFFECTIVE Food Procurement Act in Congress, which would better align USDA’s commodity food purchasing to promote fair competition, worker well-being, sustainability, animal welfare, and public health. See the fact sheet, thefull bill text, and the section by sectionsummary for more information. Please add your organization’s endorsement of the bill here by November 26.