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| | Iowa Caucus - Gazette Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Neil Ritchie, organizer for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis, said concentration of market and political power in a few large agricultural corporations has turned farmers into contract workers, hired hands and renters of land. |
 | | A revolving-door employment relationship between those corporations and their regulators, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, is a "troublesome, virtual job-sharing arrangement" with no regard for any conflict of interest, he said. |
 | | Concentration by large agricultural corporations has turned high-wage union jobs at meatpacking and food processing plants into low-wage, dangerous, non-union jobs increasingly filled by immigrants, according to Ritchie. |
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