Open Markets submitted a letter advocating for the Consumer Grocery Pricing Fairness Act to level the playing field for independent grocers by curbing discriminatory pricing practices from large retailers like Walmart and Amazon.
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Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway emphasizes the need for regional supply chains, sustainable farming, and fair labor to achieve greater self-sufficiency in food production.
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Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway is quoted advocating for stronger antitrust enforcement and the Packers and Stockyards Act to curb corporate consolidation in the meat industry.
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Open Markets Institute food program manager Claire Kelloway comments on the USDA’s finalized rule against deceptive poultry payment tactics and withdrew a proposed rule easing access to justice for unfair treatment by meatpackers.
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The Open Markets Institute submitted a letter to the USDA led by food systems program manager, Claire Kelloway, urging stronger actions to ensure fair, transparent, and competitive cattle pricing, addressing concerns about market consolidation and the impact on ranchers' compensation.
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Food program manager Claire Kelloway argues that the US needs a true opponent of corporate greed, rather than someone like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose stance is entangled with conspiracy theories.
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In response to a federal judge in Oregon granting the FTC’s request for a preliminary injunction against Kroger’s takeover of Albertsons and a state judge siding with the Washington Attorney General’s suit to block the deal, the Open Market Institute's Food Systems Program Manager Claire Kelloway issued a statement.
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Food program manager Claire Kellaway argues that enforcing antitrust laws and the Packers and Stockyards Act is key to combating food industry consolidation.
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Open Markets Institute Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway weighed in on the USDA’s latest actions to improve fair competition in food and agriculture -- actions heavily informed by Open Markets' scholarship.
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Food program manager Claire Kelloway was quoted highlighting the utter dominance of large corporations in the highly concentrated food markets, like the mayonnaise industry arguing that without antitrust enforcements ensuring fair competition, it's unlikely that these monopolistic structures will diminishing allowing for market-sharing
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Food program manager Claire Kelloway joins More Perfect Union in reporting on the planned $36 billion merger of snack giants Kellanova and Mars, which could inflate prices on popular products, highlighting concerns over corporate power abuses.
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Open Markets submits comment on USDA's proposal to define unfair practices under the Packers & Stockyards Act.
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Food program manager Claire Kelloway argues that the Kroger-Albertsons merger would likely lead to store closures, job losses, and reduced wages for workers, emphasizing the need for the Federal Trade Commission to consider these labor impacts in its antitrust review
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Open Markets Institute Food Program Manager Clare Kelloway led a comment submission to the USDA in support of the agency’s proposal to regulate unfair tournament payment systems under the “Poultry Grower Payment Systems and Capital Improvement Systems” rule.
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Open Markets Institute Food Program Manager Clare Kelloway released a statement concerning the U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture’s newly-proposed Fair and Competitive Livestock and Poultry Markets rule under the Packers and Stockyards Act:
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Open Markets and the producers behind Food, Inc. 2 hosted a roundtable discussion on how monopolies took over our food system and what policy makers can do to break them up. Upon requests, participants will received a link to view Food Inc. 2, which puts the issue of corporate consolidation in the spotlight.
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Open Markets Institute Food Program Manager Clare Kelloway released a statement on the USDA’s Packers & Stockyards Act rule on poultry tournaments.
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Open Markets Institute has partnered with the media company Participant and partners, to cosponsor the Washington, DC premiere of the documentary film sequel, Food, Inc. 2, on April 9th, and an impact campaign to improve our food system by taking on corporate power and the harmful practices that power enables.
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Claire Kelloway, food program director , and Jason Davidson, senior food and agriculture campaigner at Friends of the Earth, collaborate in this policy brief revealing the reality farmers face in the midst of carbon markets and the presence of Big Ag.
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Open Markets conducts a report by Claire Kelloway and Matt Buck sponsored by the Yale Sustainable Food Program.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley specifies paths for effective litigation and suggests actions relevant authorities might take.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes a paper describing how the FTC can use its expansive “unfair methods of competition” powers to strengthen fair competition under the Sherman Act.
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This report discusses how the USDA must improve regulation of agriculture markets to ensure fair competition and to counterbalance predatory corporate consolidation through statutes such as the Packers and Stockyards Act.
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Open Markets Institute publishes a paper, “Scrambled Eggs and Paralyzed Policy: Breaking Up Consummated Mergers and Dominant Firms,” by the economists John Kwoka and Tommaso Valletti that looks at cases in which U.S. and European law enforcers required corporations to unwind completed mergers.
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This Open Markets Institute report, “Redeeming the Democratic Promise of Agricultural Cooperatives,” highlights the vulnerability that farmers, as well as the agriculture industry as a whole, have to ever-expanding monopolistic corporations.
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In this report, “COVID-19 and the End of Laissez-Faire Globalization,” Open Markets Fellow Beth Baltzan asserts that production shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic can only be effectively solved by enacting policies such as enforceable labor standards and rules prohibiting anti-competitive behavior, thereby creating a marketplace that fosters fair competition.
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This report, “Food and Power: Addressing Monopolization in America’s Food System,” documents the degree of concentration found in different agriculture-related sectors of the economy and lays out solutions for policymakers.
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