Long story short: tell our government to stop corporate price-gouging and label ultra-processed foods, and tell Pfizer and FedEx to end their support for ALEC. Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
Demand Progress helps you tell our Federal Trade Commission (or FTC) to use the Robinson-Patman Act to force big grocery corporations to lower prices. The Robinson-Patman Act outlaws suppliers giving favorable prices to bigger corporations, since that’s a way of giving big corporations more power than small businesses, and you know big corporations use that power to jack up prices. Our government has hardly enforced Robinson-Patman since (sigh) the ‘80s, but that doesn’t mean the law doesn’t exist, and it certainly doesn’t mean the law is “out of step with the times.” Big corporate greed is out of step with the times!
More Perfect Union helps you tell our Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee to label ultra-processed food as such. Ultra-processed foods – which may include cereals and granola bars (!) in addition to chips, cookies, and other snack foods – now comprise over half of all the foods we eat, and of course scientists link their consumption to higher incidences of heart disease and cancer. Not to mention diabetes! Remember that in ancient times, folks put salt and sugar in foods to mask their spoilage – and now ask yourself if we aren’t doing the same thing with junk foods we’d never eat if they didn’t have all that salt and sugar in them.
Finally, the National Campaign for Justice helps you tell Pfizer and FedEx to stop funding the American Legislative Exchange Council (or ALEC) and reject Project 2025, the right-wing blueprint for American tyranny. Big corporations love saying we support ALEC on economic issues, but that’s no better than supporting vote suppression, because ALEC is all about making rich folks richer and poor folks poorer. And Project 2025 (which ALEC now supports) would, among other things, weaponize our Justice Department against Donald Trump’s enemies. How does he have so many enemies? It’s a puzzlement! Anyway, time to wield the Big Stick of Bad PR again!
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