Local/Regional Meat Plants are Failing – Food Security is National Security.

The pandemic exposed the many failures and empty grocery shelves of our highly concentrated and consolidated food system. The Biden administration said, in the interest of food security, “Let’s build back better.”

Millions of dollars have been directed to building new infrastructure, but unfortunately the administration didn’t get the permission from the big-food cartel to allow market access to the existing small plants that showed amazing resilience under pandemic pressure, or the new local/regional processors that have been built since, or who foolishly expanded operations post pandemic. And critically, President Biden didn’t get buy-in from USDA leadership, or USDA’s career employees who hold primary allegiance to big-food.

Big-food is stealing from producers, exploiting workers, destroying rural communities, and price gouging  consumers (not inflation), while government bows to the interests of criminals and the concentrated wealth and power of the global food cartel.