Advocates for small independent farmers in Missouri and around the nation are sounding the alarm about the effects of corporate agriculture on farmers and local communities. Missouri stands as the nation’s second-largest farming state, with nearly 86-thousand farms spanning 27 million acres. Yet, just four corporate giants – Tyson and Cargill from the U.S., Brazil’s JBS, and China’s WH Group Limited, dominate the country’s livestock production. Joe Maxwell of the nonprofit Farm Action warns that vertical integration created meatpacking monopolies, driving out independent hog farmers.
Corporate agriculture firms claim to boost efficiency and keep prices low, but advocates argue Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, are polluting air and water.
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