With food prices rising, Democrats blame “corporate consolidation” over food aid cuts as a campaign message Lisa Held | Civil Eats | March 19, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/03/19/with-food-prices-rising-democrats-blame-corporate-consolidation-over-food-aid-cuts-as-a-campaign-message/ At the Capitol Hill roundtable …, hosted by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York), farmers, union leaders, lawyers, academics, and hunger advocates railed against policies they say have allowed corporations to get too big. They say the policies hurt consumers by making them pay more at the register, and also hurt farmers, who earn less for what they produce.