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Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper: Livestock and Poultry Concentration with Open Markets Institute
August 29, 2024 @ 11:00 am – 11:45 am PDT
Dig Deeper with Digging In! Digging In is SAFSF’s first documentary film, produced by Nathan.works and underwritten by the Vatheuer Family Foundation, and was designed as a tool for funders and their grantees to explore the wide-ranging challenges of land access, consolidation and concentration, and climate change on U.S. agriculture. The film uplifts on-the-ground perspectives and solutions across the country.
Join us for our first installment of Digging Deeper, a lunchtime condensed documentary screening and chat, focused on concentration in the livestock and poultry industry.
This call featured Claire Kelloway, Food Systems Program Manager at Open Markets Institute.
Topics Covered:
- USDA’s New Fair and Competitive Livestock and Poultry Markets Proposed Rule
- Current state of the livestock and poultry industry
- What funders, non-profit and communities can do
Speaker:
Featured in Digging In, Claire Kelloway is the program manager for fair food and farming systems at the Open Markets Institute. She is the primary writer for Food & Power, a first-of-its-kind website, providing original reporting and resources on monopoly power in food and agriculture. She also oversees Open Markets’ policy research into the legal underpinnings of corporations and market concentration in the food sector.
Kelloway has written for outlets such as The Intercept, Civil Eats, The American Prospect, and ProPublica. She has appeared on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Vox’s “FuturePerfect” videos, and numerous podcasts. Before joining Open Markets, she worked as a sustainability fellow with Bon Appetit Management Company and studied political economy at Carleton College. Kelloway lives and works in Minneapolis.
You can reach her at @clairekelloway on X.
