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Jim McGovern: “Just a few multinational corporations now basically control…”

Featuring: Jim McGovern, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 2nd Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 01:04

The seeds that our food system depends on to grow the food that all of us eat every day. The truth is that over the last decades, the American seed industry has been bought out by Big Ag. Just a few multinational corporations now basically control the supply of an essential farm input [seeds]. This unchecked corporate power harms the farmers who grow our food and the families who depend on it. (01:04–01:12)

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Asserts that a small number of multinational corporations control the seed supply.

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