Democrats Let MAGA Co-Opt the Healthy Food Movement
With RFK Jr., Trump rebrands himself yet again—even if transforming the “industrial food complex” is much more complicated than he’d admit.
Most Americans don’t know about the complex and, by many accounts, unfair system that puts chicken on their plates—but President Barack Obama did, even if he never managed to change it.
The chicken industry isn’t a particularly nice one, and one part of that is how it treats the farmers doing the work of raising all those birds. The farmers have to compete against one another in what’s known as a “tournament” system to raise the most fowl, by weight, on the least feed. The two most important factors—the chicks and the feed—are supplied by the company, whether it be Tyson Foods, Sanderson Farms, Perdue Farms or others. So, some say, a farmer’s fate is foretold before he or she does any animal husbandry at all.