Bust Monopolies
Monopolies have rigged prices to harm Texas families from the countryside to the city. Just a handful of corporations control our food system.
- Four corporations control 60% of our coffee, cookies, and bread market.
- Four corporations control 70% of our yogurt, beer, and soybean seeds.
- Four corporations control 80% of our meat industry, two of which aren't even American.
Instead of living in a free market, we now live in a monopoly market.
- Monopolies cause inflation.
- Monopolies lower productivity.
- This level of domination inevitably leads to abuse both towards consumers and farmers.
We are not against big farms or ranches, or against family-owned companies owning farms. We are greatly concerned about the transnational corporations that have and continue to rewrite the rules to enlarge themselves at the expense of everyone else.
Monopolies are devouring America. They destroy small businesses, they price-gouge Americans, they rewrite our trade rules to ship our jobs overseas, they allow toxins to be in our food, they turn free markets into monopoly markets, and more. We broke up monopolies in the past. We must do it again.
