Fair Food for Illinois

Here's an opportunity to speak out for fair food, reducing the stranglehold of big business on our food supply.  This petition is against price fixing, so that farmers will have a better chance of getting paid fairly for meat animals.

For many Americans it was Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel "The Jungle", about
meatpacking plants in Chicago, that first brought the problems with our
food system to light. A century later, problems remain, and Illinois
residents are again positioned to create change. Join us in asking Senator
Durbin to fix our food system.

Just a few companies dominate most links in America's food chain, charging
consumers more for their food while farmers are paid less. A first step in
leveling the playing field is to stop big meat companies from controlling
the prices they pay for livestock. Now we have an opportunity to help
farmers and consumers by making markets fair. Can you ask Senator Durbin
to co-sponsor the Livestock Marketing Fairness Act?

Our food system has become increasingly concentrated into the hands of a
few giant agribusinesses. The Livestock Marketing Fairness Act would help
reform the chain of meat production for the benefit of farmers and
consumers by making sure that livestock producers are paid a fair price by
meatpackers.

Giant meatpackers have been allowed to undermine livestock producers
through unfair contracts and then manipulate prices for consumers. We now
have an important opportunity to help level the playing field. We're
collecting petition signatures to urge Senator Durbin to co-sponsor S.
1086, the Livestock Marketing Fairness Act.

Thanks for taking action,

 Jon Keesecker
Central Region Director
Food & Water Watch