“We don’t need Congress to ‘fix’ Prop 12. We need Congress to fix the broken markets that have pushed farmers like me to the brink,” says Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.
“Now we don’t have information or the tools or programs we need to even know if there’s going to be a next year on our farm,” said Farm Action Fund’s Joe Maxwell.
Farm Action Fund is making farmers’ voices heard through a robust campaign in Washington, D.C., thanking lawmakers who support California’s Prop 12 despite corporate producers’ attempts to overturn it.
Joe Maxwell, president of Farm Action Fund, says eliminating the measure would be detrimental to the nation’s independent hog farmers because it has created a vital market opportunity.
The campaign aims to ensure that family farmers are heard in D.C. as corporate meatpackers are lobbying aggressively to overturn California’s Proposition 12.
“Proposition 12 did not mandate a Missouri farmer, or an Illinois farmer, or an Iowa farmer, to comply,” said Farm Action Fund’s Joe Maxwell.