Open Markets writes two comments to the USDA appreciating the acknowledgment of corporate consolidation and retail distribution within many sectors of the agricultural industry.
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Open Markets writes two comments to the USDA appreciating the acknowledgment of corporate consolidation and retail distribution within many sectors of the agricultural industry.
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Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway discusses a class action lawsuit filed against poultry corporations by local farmers.
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Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway amplifies the inflated prices consumers are paying for meat, and the industry’s struggles.
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Program manager Claire Kelloway was was cited in an article in about the consolidation of the grocery distribution industry.
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Program manager Claire Kelloway was featured on the medium’s “On Point” podcast show looking at meat monopolies in America.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley was quoted in Sen. Jon Tester’s press release announcing his Agriculture Right to Repair Act, which aims to give farmers the right to repair their own equipment and end current restrictions on the repair market.
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Open Markets details how the “Agricultural Right to Repair Act” takes an important step toward breaking consolidated equipment manufacturers’ monopoly over repair for critical farm tools.
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Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway discusses how to use antitrust to reign in corporate recklessness and create long-term food supply chain resiliency.
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Open Markets urges the Administration to further pursue fair competition rulemakings and enforce antitrust violations by meatpackers
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Claire Kelloway, food systems program manager, was featured on the “For a Better World” podcast discussing dairy farm monopolies.
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Open Markets points to the DOJ’s commitment to preventing further consolidation as a major factor in merger decision.
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Senior reporter and researcher Claire Kelloway’s work was profiled in a video and story about the concentrated chicken industry’s worker safety problem.
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Senior Reporter & Researcher Claire Kelloway stars in a video segment about corporate consolidation of the meatpacking industry.
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Senior reporter and researcher Claire Kelloway is featured on NPR’s Morning Edition commenting on the dangers of food supply consolidation.
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Open Markets Institute submitted a comment to the USDA putting forth gratitude for seeking public input on how to invest in a more robust, diverse, and competitive meatpacking sector.
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On Thursday, November 10, the Open Markets Institute, Towards Justice, and the National Legal Advocacy Network filed a brief in support of McDonald’s workers in Deslandes v. McDonalds.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci co-authored this article on the common denominator in disadvantages of workers within different industries.
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Sandeep Vanheesan, legal director, and Claire Kelloway, senior reporter, write in the LPE Project about the insufficient portrayals of antimonopoly policy in the field of agriculture. Their article shines a light on the misrepresented economic statuses of farmers across the states.
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Open Markets' Sandeep Vaheesan and Claire Kelloway published a piece on The American Prospect on November 21, 2019 calling for a fair labor market for food chain workers. An overwhelmingly disenfranchised immigrant workforce and corporate collusion and concentration define work in food and agriculture today, they assert. Reforming these labor markets is essential.
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Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan blasts the Supreme Court’s decision in Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas arguing that the decision nullifies the 21st Amendment’s will that states control their alcohol market, and paves the way for monopolistic retail corporations such as Amazon and Walmart to overrun the markets for beer, wine, and spirits.
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