Sanders launches plan to help family farmers during the Iowa shutdown

Sen. Bernie SandersBernard (Bernie) SandersSanders expresses his support for the vote to hold Barr in contempt of Barr Ben & Jerry's co-founder introduces Sanders as a president who "defends justice in all its flavors". How could Democrats avoid eating themselves MORE (I-Vt.), Presidential candidate of 2020, put in place Sunday a plan to protect family farmers from climate change and large agricultural companies.

Sanders' plan, which was introduced at a campaign stop in Iowa, would increase the enforcement of antitrust law to block "monopoly mergers" and ban agriculture under the law. contract, protect farmers from "patent lawsuits filed by seed companies" farms and restrict foreign ownership of agricultural land, according to a statement from his campaign.

It would also cease exempting industrial operations from anti-pollution rules and punish farms that drift herbicides and pollute organic farms.

"As business profits grow in agribusiness, while post merger merger gives even more power to a handful of huge conglomerates, thousands of farm families are forced to leave their lands every year because the prices they get for their products are lower than the production costs, "Sanders said, according to the release.

"Unfortunately, instead of seeing good jobs, education and health care enter our rural communities, we all too often see despair and depression – and a dreadful increase in the number of suicides and opioid addiction ", he added. . We can not create an economy that works for all Americans if we continue to neglect the needs of rural America. "

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