email sent to me this morning from the Food Democracy folks...



Act today to help end corporate control of your food: Tell the DOJ and USDA it's time to bust up Big Food!

Dear (my name removed)

In the past 30 years America’s food system has become dangerously over consolidated, which has made our food less safe, our nation obese, driven tens of thousands of family farmers off the land and fundamentally undermined the integrity of our democracy.

This week we’re traveling to Washington DC to deliver your comments to the Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Agriculture, asking for the Obama Administration to break up agribusiness' corporate monopolies. Already more than Food Democracy Now! members have made 100,000 comments, asking that the administration take a strong stand against abuses of corporate concentration in our food and agricultural system.

For the past year, the Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Agriculture have held a series of public hearings across the country investigating the impacts of concentration in food and agriculture and we’ve traveled to every one. We’ve made a point of traveling to every hearing because we felt it was important to witness this historic event and make sure that the voices of family farmers and America’s citizens were represented.

Now we’re making the final trip to Washington DC to help make sure your voice is heard. Already the DOJ has launched potentially history-making investigations into corrupt competitive practices by Monsanto and Dean Foods, the nation’s largest dairy processor.

Tell the DOJ and USDA that you support these investigations and want them to put an end to the monopolistic practices that harm family farmers, the environment and offer Americans unhealthy and unsafe food.


http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign ... 213.iTStip

Here at Food Democracy Now! we’re encouraged by the Obama administration’s willingness to take on some of the most powerful interests in our economy. These investigations are an important first step, but they need to follow through and take action to break up the corporations that have repeatedly violated our nation’s antitrust laws and in order to do so they’ll need your support.

Whenever power is concentrated in the hands of a few, abuses inevitably occur. In the past several decades, giant corporate agribusiness has slowly gobbled up smaller companies and driven family farmers off the land, all the in the name of “efficiencyâ€