Rep. Ro Khanna is joining Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker in the legislation, and has submitted a companion bill in the House.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced Thursday that she would be co-sponsoring Sen. Cory Booker's bill to phase out large-scale factory farming by 2040.
"For years, regulators looked the other way while giant multinational corporations crushed competition in the agriculture sector and seized control over key markets," Warren said in a statement."The COVID-19 crisis will make it easier for Big Ag to get even bigger, gobble up smaller farms, and lead to fewer choices for consumers."
Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Elizabeth Warren share the stage during a Democratic presidential debate in Miami, Florida on June 26, 2019.late last month that invoked the Defense Production Act in an attempt to compel meatpackers to remain open as"critical infrastructure," despite large outbreaks of COVID-19 that have reportedly overwhelmed some facilities.
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