The Family Grocery and Farmer Relief Act aims to restore competition in the meatpacking industry by reducing excessive concentration and market power.
The Family Grocery and Farmer Relief Act seeks to address the highly concentrated meatpacking industry by limiting the operations of large meatpacking enterprises, promoting divestitures, and preventing foreign leverage over domestic beef and pork markets. The bill mandates the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to require divestitures for meatpacking enterprises that violate concentration thresholds in beef markets.
The filed bill text is too short for analysis.