Claire Kelloway

Minneapolis

Food and Agriculture Reporter and Researcher at Open Markets Institute

Food and Agriculture Reporter and Researcher at Food & Power

Food Reporter for @OpenMarkets, writer of @foodandpower, proud @NonprofitUnion and @FSP_NWU member, she/her. Opinions are my own

Articles

Washington Monthly - Unscrambling the Price of Eggs — Open Markets Institute

2 weeks ago | openmarketsinstitute.org | Claire Kelloway

The fate of the nation, as we have all learned, hangs on the price of eggs. But have you noticed that the price of eggs—which might finally be coming down—has risen much faster for some eggs than others? In the past, if you went down to your farmers’ market and bought eggs laid by local free-range hens living under humane conditions, you had to pay a big premium.
Unscrambling the Price of Eggs

2 weeks ago | washingtonmonthly.com | Claire Kelloway

The fate of the nation, as we have all learned, hangs on the price of eggs. But have you noticed that the price of some eggs has risen much faster than others? In the past, if you went down to your farmers’ market and bought eggs laid by local free-range hens living under humane conditions, you had to pay a big premium.
If You Care About Record Egg Prices, You Should Care About Corporate Consolidation

2 months ago | matr.net | Claire Kelloway

Egg corporations have too much power to exploit disruptions like bird flu to push up prices. Bird flu also hits harder on massive, consolidated farms: recent outbreaks on just 10 large farms could take out 18 million hens, or 6% of the U.S. egg laying population.
Analysis: If You Care About Record Egg Prices, You Should Care About Corporate Consolidation

2 months ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Kelloway

This story was originally published by Food & Power. The price of eggs has come to symbolize a cost of living crisis that, by many accounts, helped elect President Donald Trump. However, egg prices have a lot less to do with the recent choices of either the Biden or Trump administrations and a lot more to do with decades of policies that consolidated food production into the hands of a few powerful corporations, a trend that President Trump will likely continue.
America needs a real challenger to corporate greed, not conspiracy-riddled RFK Jr. — Open Markets Institute

Jan 13, 2025 | openmarketsinstitute.org | Claire Kelloway

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drew modest support from Republicans and Democrats by running for president on a campaign to “Make America Healthy Again, (MAHA), reducing chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease by targeting corporate influence over food regulation and nutrition standards. On their face, these are important goals. However, Kennedy is not the right leader to take them on — even if incoming President Trump gives him the chance.
America needs a real challenger to corporate greed, not conspiracy-riddled RFK Jr.

Jan 3, 2025 | thehill.com | Claire Kelloway

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Trump’s Antitrust Enforcers Could Kill Unfinished Cases. Will They?

Nov 14, 2024 | foodandpower.substack.com | Claire Kelloway

U.S. District Court in Minneapolis hearing the U.S. v. Agri Stats case. Photo courtesy of iStock. Antitrust litigation is a lengthy enterprise. A second Trump administration will take over several ongoing federal legal challenges to large mergers and domineering conduct by food and agriculture companies. New antitrust leaders can pull those cases, or more likely, let companies off the hook with a weak settlement. It’s too soon to tell if they will.
Welcome!

Nov 13, 2024 | foodandpower.substack.com | Claire Kelloway

Food & Power is now on Substack! The Open Markets Institute launched the Food & Power website and newsletter in 2016 to document and investigate the harms of corporate consolidation in the food system. Shockingly few corporations control the supply chains that put food on our tables. Just four companies sell half of all seeds and 60% of all farm chemicals worldwide.
The farm bill hall of shame

Jul 26, 2024 | thefern.org | Claire Kelloway

The sometimes tragic, always maddening history of today’s ag-policy fights Media partner Mother Jones By This Story’s Impact 8 million monthly web readers2 million monthly social users The farm bill is among the most important pieces of legislation that Congress is more or less obliged to pass.
The farm bill hall of shame

Feb 21, 2024 | investigatemidwest.org | Claire Kelloway |Sky Chadde

This article was originally published by FERN with media partner Mother Jones. The farm bill is among the most important pieces of legislation that Congress is more or less obliged to pass. Yet to all but a handful of people whose job it is to parse its every incremental gain or loss, it is largely inscrutable.