Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced Thursday that she would be co-sponsoring Sen. Cory Booker's bill to phase out large-scale factory farming by 2040.
"For years, regulators looked the other way while giant multinational corporations crushed competition in the agriculture sector and seized control over key markets," Warren said in a statement."The COVID-19 crisis will make it easier for Big Ag to get even bigger, gobble up smaller farms, and lead to fewer choices for consumers."
Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Elizabeth Warren share the stage during a Democratic presidential debate in Miami, Florida on June 26, 2019.late last month that invoked the Defense Production Act in an attempt to compel meatpackers to remain open as"critical infrastructure," despite large outbreaks of COVID-19 that have reportedly overwhelmed some facilities.
Not soon enough
FriendEden100 Absolutely great!!! Make it sooner.
FriendEden100 How about every damn meat company like Tyson hire a few Trump, MoscowMitch, and LindseyGraham family members to work there!! ewarren CoryBooker
We’re in a crisis now and they’re dumping milk and turning crops under when people are going hungry losing their jobs. Give it to the needy. If you have to let them glean it themselves. Farmers would probably do that but I don’t think that a factory farm would.
Once again, Assclowns in the Senate want to screw over the consumer!
Why is it so far down the road? I'm not being funny when I ask, will they even be alive to see this supposed monumental change.
Why not ban it by 2022? Help transition the industry to other forms sustainable farming sooner rather than later. No need to delay.
2040? 🤣🤣🤣 i propose a bill for 2060 that cars can't run on gas ...gtfoh with that bullshit
YASSSSS
Thankfully for us eastern folks, Islam already forbids animal farming like how we know it
I haven't read the article but with those two for it, I bet I am against it. Just say no to Socialism.
Pocahontas and Spartacus unite to fight!
So like MOST bills drafter by Democrats nowadays, it's set to go into effect, after they're out of office and well after it's too late to make a difference when we needed this years ago. Typical. Their paltry attempts at governance is contemptuous. They're GOP stooges at best.
Can we still eat bats?
arguing that “because there's been good news really, that the opening up is starting to happen faster than we expected” then there is a chance no further relief, including a second stimulus check would be needed.