Comment: NSAC Responds to the Lower Food and Fuel Cost Act – H.R. 7606
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Laura Zaks
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
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Comment: NSAC Responds to the Lower Food and Fuel Cost Act – H.R. 7606
Washington, DC, June 17, 2022 – Today, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) issued the following comment, attributable to Eric Deeble, NSAC Policy Director, in response to the Lower Food and Fuel Cost Act – H.R. 7606 which passed yesterday in the House.
…“The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) applauds the House for taking decisive action to support the creation of a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) special investigator to enforce fair-play rules in the highly concentrated meatpacking industry when they passed the Lower Food and Fuel Cost Act – H.R. 7606 on Thursday. This fundamental reform would create the “Office of the Special Investigator for Competition Matters” within the USDA Packers