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Claire Kelloway

@clairek.bsky.social
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Writing about food and ag for the Open Markets Institute / Food & Power. Foodandpower.net

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A national dairy business, Riverview, is building massive farms upwards of 60x larger than the average U.S. dairy farm. Farmers, environmentalists, and rural organizers in MN are fighting against risky industry consolidation and asking for policy action foodandpower.substack.com/p/minnesota-...
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Most politicians say that they want to help people afford their lives, but what really matters is how. For @dissentmag.bsky.social, Sandeep Vaheesan and I argue that any "affordability" agenda must challenge corporate pricing power, not worker power. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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The Fight Over Affordability - Dissent Magazine
We’re living in a period of excess business pricing power, not overbearing workers.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Despite his talk about taking on monopoly packers, Trump took a visit from executives at the world's largest meatpacker, JBS, and shortly thereafter took to Truth social to announce tariff relief on 300,000 tons of lean beef, undermining US ranchers and benefiting JBS. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | How a Brazilian Billionaire Helped Shape Trump’s Beef Import Plan
Joesley Batista met with Trump a day before the president announced a plan to waive tariffs on beef imports, angering farmers and ranchers.
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Karina Montoya @pressgirlk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Meta finally concedes to making its platforms less addictive for kids, after years of battling similar proposed legislation. Now it urges competitors to do the same 🤷‍♀️ Here's for the age of profits over safety to end soon! We started with kids, but shouldn't stop there. www.npr.org/2026/08/26/n...
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Meta, states agree to $17 billion settlement in child safety trial
The social media giant also agreed to make sweeping changes to Instagram and Facebook.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
ICYMI, catch the latest issue of Food & Power (with updated data) reprinted today in @barnraiser.bsky.social ! I explain how corporate consolidation increases the risk of large foodborne illness outbreaks like cyclospora barnraisingmedia.com/the-bigger-t...
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The Bigger the Corporation, the Bigger the Diarrhea Outbreak
Taylor Farms and other large produce corporations have long exerted political power to weaken food safety regulations.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
While still without definitive proof, the FDA links states with the largest cyclospora outbreaks to lettuce from produce giant, Taylor Farms. open.substack.com/pub/foodandp...
Image of iceberg lettuce with text superimposed saying "the bigger the corporation, the bigger the diarrhea outbreak"
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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"The entire U.S. food system is remarkably consolidated, exploitative and fragile." In @nytopinion.nytimes.com, @clairek.bsky.social & Sandeep Vaheesan explain what's gone wrong with our food system & the big changes needed to fix it. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...
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Opinion | This Is Why Your Groceries Are So Expensive
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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Excellent guest essay in the Times about the root cause of rising grocery prices.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Thrilled to write for the @nytopinion.nytimes.com today with Sandeep Vaheesan, making the case for genuine antitrust action in the food system, not just rhetoric www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...
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Opinion | This Is Why Your Groceries Are So Expensive
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Sysco wants to be restaurants only option. This deal brings them one step closer to that. Sure, Sysco delivers and RD is "cash & carry," but small restaurants compare prices between the two. Independents already have few options for buying food, this makes that worse. www.reuters.com/business/sys...
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US food giant Sysco strikes $29 billion deal for catering supplier Restaurant Depot
Sysco said on Monday it would buy catering supplier Jetro Restaurant Depot in a $29  billion deal expanding the top U.S. food ‌distributor's reach among price-conscious independent restaurants.
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Excellent analysis from @clairek.bsky.social about the power of the big fertilizer firms in crisis moments like this- always happy to talk with her about these kinds of issues! foodandpower.substack.com/p/fertilizer...
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Fertilizer Giants Make Farmers and Food Production More Vulnerable
Fertilizer prices are rising as US and Israel’s attack on Iran closes the critical Strait of Hormuz. In theory, nitrogen fertilizer can be made all over the world, so why is the industry so consolidat...
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Fertilizer prices are rising as US and Israel’s attack on Iran closes the critical Strait of Hormuz. In theory, nitrogen fertilizer can be made all over the world, so why is the industry so consolidated and vulnerable? I try to answer in Food & Power! open.substack.com/pub/foodandp...
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Fertilizer Giants Make Farmers and Food Production More Vulnerable
Fertilizer prices are rising as US and Israel’s attack on Iran closes the critical Strait of Hormuz. In theory, nitrogen fertilizer can be made all over the world, so why is the industry so consolidat...
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I spoke with meatpacking plant workers and a small meat processing operator about the chilling effect of Operation Metro Surge and other immigration restrictions on Minnesota's meatpacking towns.
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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The @washingtonmonthly.com Winter Issue wisely recommends Democrats go bold in their proposals to bring down prices. Our Food Program Manager @clairek.bsky.social examines one of these ideas: public grocery stores. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/22/h...
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How to Bring Down Grocery Prices
A civilian equivalent of the commissary system could deliver more affordable grocery prices to hard-pressed Americans.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I live in Minneapolis, and witnessing the ways local businesses are boldly and creatively stepping up to meet community needs as large corporations offer mild statements or facilitate ICE reminds me why antimonopoly policy is central to a healthy democracy. foodandpower.substack.com/p/wall-stree...
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Wall Street Doesn’t Reward Resilience, Main Street Does
Minnesota shows how small businesses can support their communities through crisis while large corporations make measured statements, or worse, cooperate with authoritarian overreach.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I live in Minneapolis, and witnessing the ways local businesses are boldly and creatively stepping up to meet community needs as large corporations offer mild statements or facilitate ICE reminds me why antimonopoly policy is central to a healthy democracy. foodandpower.substack.com/p/wall-stree...
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Wall Street Doesn’t Reward Resilience, Main Street Does
Minnesota shows how small businesses can support their communities through crisis while large corporations make measured statements, or worse, cooperate with authoritarian overreach.
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Nate Weisberg @nateweisberg.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
A public option for grocery stores, based on the proof of concept provided by the commissary model, could not only vastly improve food access; it could inject more competition into the broader grocery market and bring down food prices for all Americans in the long term. By @clairek.bsky.social
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How to Bring Down Grocery Prices
A civilian equivalent of the commissary system could deliver more affordable grocery prices to hard-pressed Americans.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
As consumers struggle with rising food prices, an unsealed antitrust suit involving Walmart and Pepsi and a report on Instacart’s algorithmic pricing model demonstrate the ways large food corporations charge different prices to different retailers and consumers. open.substack.com/pub/foodandp...
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Revelations from FTC’s Unsealed Pepsi Case and Instacart Pricing Investigation
As consumers continue to struggle with rising food prices, an unsealed antitrust suit involving Walmart and Pepsi and a report on Instacart’s algorithmic pricing model demonstrate the ways large food ...
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Bird flu has killed 8.7 million turkeys, chickens, and ducks in the U.S. since September, alone. Outbreaks on turkey farms earlier this year plunged the U.S. turkey flock to its lowest size in 40 years. As a result, wholesale prices for whole turkeys surged 75% between October 2024 and October 2025.
A large flock of turkeys in an industrial barn, with a text overlay that reads: "bird flu hits a consolidated turkey industry ahead of thanksgiving."
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Policymakers at all levels have options to make food markets more fair & competitive to stabilize prices for the long run. This includes fair pricing policy like the RobinsonPatman Act, public option grocery stores & wholesalers, and banning surveillance pricing, price-fixing, and exclusive dealing.
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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Your Thanksgiving guide to fairer food prices, from @clairek.bsky.social and Food & Power: 🦃🌽 www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
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New Expert Brief -- Creating Fair Food Markets for Affordable Groceries — Open Markets Institute
Creating Fair Food Markets for Affordable Groceries, an expert brief by Food Systems manager Claire Kelloway, shares how policymakers at all levels of government can hold food corporations to account...
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Can always count on @grocerynerd.bsky.social to tell it like it is! A great breakdown of the past 5 years of food price hikes, why profiteering is a driver of these price increases, and policies that would help ensure food is a human right www.forbes.com/sites/errols...
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Why High Food Prices Will Make Public Groceries Inevitable
Grocery prices have jumped 25% in just 4 years while consumption volumes have plummeted. Public sector solutions may be the key to bring back affordability.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
At Food and Power, @clairek.bsky.social discusses what Mamdani can learn from past and present public grocery projects.
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What Mamdani Can Learn from Past and Present Public Grocery Projects
Cities, small towns, and the federal government have all tried running public food markets and grocery stores. New York City can learn from the military commissary system and benefit from Robinson-Pat...
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani's public grocery store pilot ruffled feathers, but the idea isn't all that new. American cities used to play a big role in food retail running public markets and the military runs a successful public grocery chain for military families. 🧵 substack.com/home/post/p-...
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What Mamdani Can Learn from Past and Present Public Grocery Projects
Cities, small towns, and the federal government have all tried running public food markets and grocery stores. New York City can learn from the military commissary system and benefit from Robinson-Pat...
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Apropro of nothing, re-upping this op-ed by Zephyr Teachout on what city government can do to create more fair and affordable grocery markets 👀 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
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Opinion | New York City Has the Power to Bring Down Grocery Prices. All Cities Do.
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The States Forum @statesforum.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Rural stagnation is not inevitable; it is a policy choice. We can begin to fix it at the state-level - with anti-monopoly legislation and by supporting fair competition in agriculture. More from @clairek.bsky.social in our inaugural journal: www.statesforum.org/journal/issu...
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Fair Markets For Rural America - The States Forum
Every election season, red and blue maps reinforce the myth of “two Americas,” the wealthy, liberal cities and the declining, conservative countryside.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
President Trump’s plan to import more beef from Argentina hit a nerve with ranchers, not only because it sunk cattle futures, but because U.S. ranchers already feel threatened by unlabeled imports and the powerful multinational packers that profit off of them. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Bigger Tensions Behind Trump’s Beef with Cattle Ranchers
President Trump’s plan to import more beef from Argentina hit a nerve with ranchers, not only because it sunk cattle futures, but because U.S. ranchers already feel threatened by unlabeled imports.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
ICYMI - Among the many shutdown casualties is the Packers and Stockyards division. It's the latest blow to ag antitrust enforcement after USDA canceled its Farmer Seed Liaison cooperative agreement early last month.
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Ben Lilliston @benlilliston.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I raise a few questions about McDonald's commitment to regen ag here. @nsac-sustainableag.bsky.social puts this initiative in context, including major cuts to #USDA staff managing programs that could help farmers. Great reporting by @clairek.bsky.social www.foodandpower.net/latest/mcdon...
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How McDonald’s Latest Regenerative Beef Investment Falls Short — Food & Power
RFK Jr. praised McDonald’s $200M donation as the Trump administration cuts USDA staff that support rangeland conservation. Rather than fund short-term projects, advocates want McDonald’s to pay ranche...
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The OBBB changed a lot of important things, including the way Congress passes food and farm policy. By reauthorizing much of the Farm Bill through the OBBB, including massive SNAP cuts, there's little incentive for Congress to pass a traditional Farm Bill, now or maybe ever again.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
At first the Trump admin said farms & food plants would not be targets for immigration raids, but as pressures mount to meet aggressive deportation targets, that's beginning to change. This threatens US food security and approx. 850,000 immigrant families who have worked on US farms for decades
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The Food & Environment Reporting Network @thefern.org · 24/09/2025
Read the full story, a collaboration with Successful Farming, at thefern.org/2025/09/is-f... @clairek.bsky.social
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Kraft Heinz lost 60% of its stock value since merging, and now it wants to split in search of growth. Getting too big and PE cost-cutting set Kraft Heinz back, but it still dominates many segments of the grocery store, and this split won’t change that. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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After a Rough Decade, Kraft Heinz Splits Up
Turns out bigger isn’t always better.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
With lots of buzz about Mamdani's public grocery pilot, Zephyr Teachout urges mayors to *also* use competition policy to bring down food prices and help local grocers and farmers: ending big box favoritism, commercial bribery, and price gouging www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
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Opinion | The Solution to $10 Eggs Lies Within New York City Limits
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FarmSTAND @farmstand.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Cutting SNAP while widening loopholes for Big Ag: hypocritical and "will drive farm consolidation and raise land prices, hurting smaller farms and young farmers." ✏️ @clairek.bsky.social
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Budget Bill Expands Subsidies for Largest Farms, Cuts SNAP — Food & Power
As Republicans added work requirements for SNAP, they also made it easier for non-active farm owners to collect more federal subsidies.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I recently contributed an essay to the @statesforum.bsky.social's inaugural policy journal on tools that states can use to combat corporate price gouging of rural peoples' basic needs: groceries, healthcare, and equipment repair statesforum.org/journal/issu...
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Fair Markets For Rural America - The States Forum
Every election season, red and blue maps reinforce the myth of “two Americas,” the wealthy, liberal cities and the declining, conservative countryside.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Surreal - I was part of the team at @thefern.org that won a James Beard Media award last weekend! 🎉
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The Food & Environment Reporting Network @thefern.org · 04/06/2025
In this episode of Gravy, a podcast from the Southern Foodways Alliance, reporter Boyce Upholt digs into a problem that extends well beyond the Gulf Coast: how for decades imported seafood has undercut local prices, effectively killing local fishing fleets in places like Biloxi, Mississippi.
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Marcia Brown @marciabrown.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
New study from Yale on SNAP work requirements in CT: -Work requirements cut enrollment by 25% -Older, sicker people more likely to lose benefits -After ending work requirements, enrollment didn't return to previous levels tobin.yale.edu/research/sna...
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SNAP work requirements have biggest effect on those least able to work
Most people pushed out of SNAP in Connecticut didn’t find their way back in, even when work requirements were later reversed.
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Jos McIntyre @josmac101.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Kudos to @clairek.bsky.social and Food & Power blog from the Open Market Institute for it deep look at the even more deeply flawed #MAHA commission report. The conclusion: behind every potentially good idea is an actually policy of Trump that undermines it. Corporate power still rules in #ag.
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MAHA Report’s Rhetoric Contradicts Administration’s Actions — Food & Power
The MAHA report says food and chemical corporations should be held accountable for making children sick but the actions of Congress and the Trump administration reveal different priorities.
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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
NEW: 🚢⚓️ Our transportation policy analyst Arnav Rao has a big, new report out today on why U.S. maritime power declined - and how to effectively revive it. Read the report & his corresponding piece in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
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How America Lost Control of the Seas
Thanks to decades of misguided policy choices, the U.S. has an astonishing lack of maritime capacity.
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Marcia Brown @marciabrown.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Fascinating look at how states are trying to deal with an emerging consumer issue.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"The primary conceit [in Abundance] is that in many areas, the private sector is ready to invest—and to invest big—if politicians would only lift public barriers standing in their way. There is little evidence that is true."
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Grocery chains collect large swaths of data on customers’ location, past purchases, demographics, and web-browsing history to offer targeted advertising, promotions, and prices. As pricing gets more private, shoppers will have a harder time comparing prices and discerning what is truly a deal.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
It's here!! @ronmknox.bsky.social's super rad antimonopoly ZINE! It's a concise compelling tale of how people power can stand up to our modern day robber barons - for sharing far and wide
Cover of the zine "Resist Monopolies" by Ron Knox, image of workers and a farmer challenging three fat cat monopolist men in top hats
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I'm grateful to work with the stellar editors at @thefern.org and totally humbled and honored to be among their writing cohort nominated for a James Beard Media Award!
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Cal-Maine has made millions while everyday Americans pay record prices for eggs. The company recently announced that it will use these profits to acquire an egg patty maker and buy out stock from its founding family, transferring wealth from the many to the few. open.substack.com/pub/foodandp...
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Flush with Cash, Cal-Maine Plans to Acquire Egg Patty Maker and Pay Out Family Owners
As Americans struggle with record egg prices, the largest U.S. egg company plans to transfer its soaring profits to a few family owners and buy up a downstream egg processor in cash.
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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Get the latest on the ways in which tariffs and budget cuts are impacting export-oriented and small farmers in Food & Power from @clairek.bsky.social. foodandpower.substack.com/p/usda-cuts-...
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USDA Cuts Funds for Local Food Purchasing
Export-oriented commodity farmers brace for retaliation after President Trump levied sweeping new tariffs on Wednesday.
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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Trump's USDA just announced that it will let more meatpacking plants get waivers to increase their line speeds. Speeds are already unsafe for workers, as Ted Genoways reveals in his latest investigation for @motherjones.com and @thefern.org www.motherjones.com/food/2025/03...
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They fled Haiti and work America's most dangerous jobs. Trump plans to deport them.
After being recruited by the world's largest meatpacker, they faced grueling conditions on the line. Is the worst yet to come?
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 21/03/2025
Terry was scammed out of most of his savings and was supposed to get his money back—until Donald Trump and Elon Musk gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Part one:
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