Claire Kelloway
@clairek.bsky.social
Writing about food and ag for the Open Markets Institute / Food & Power. Foodandpower.net
Bird flu has killed 8.7 million turkeys, chickens, and ducks in the U.S. since September, alone. Outbreaks on turkey farms earlier this year plunged the U.S. turkey flock to its lowest size in 40 years. As a result, wholesale prices for whole turkeys surged 75% between October 2024 and October 2025.
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Bird flu has killed 8.7 million turkeys, chickens, and ducks in the U.S. since September, alone. Outbreaks on turkey farms earlier this year plunged the U.S. turkey flock to its lowest size in 40 years. As a result, wholesale prices for whole turkeys surged 75% between October 2024 and October 2025.
Policymakers at all levels have options to make food markets more fair & competitive to stabilize prices for the long run. This includes fair pricing policy like the RobinsonPatman Act, public option grocery stores & wholesalers, and banning surveillance pricing, price-fixing, and exclusive dealing.
Your Thanksgiving guide to fairer food prices, from @clairek.bsky.social and Food & Power: 🦃🌽
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
New Expert Brief -- Creating Fair Food Markets for Affordable Groceries — Open Markets Institute
Creating Fair Food Markets for Affordable Groceries, an expert brief by Food Systems manager Claire Kelloway, shares how policymakers at all levels of government can hold food corporations to account...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Policymakers at all levels have options to make food markets more fair & competitive to stabilize prices for the long run. This includes fair pricing policy like the RobinsonPatman Act, public option grocery stores & wholesalers, and banning surveillance pricing, price-fixing, and exclusive dealing.
Reposted by Claire Kelloway
Your Thanksgiving guide to fairer food prices, from @clairek.bsky.social and Food & Power: 🦃🌽
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
New Expert Brief -- Creating Fair Food Markets for Affordable Groceries — Open Markets Institute
Creating Fair Food Markets for Affordable Groceries, an expert brief by Food Systems manager Claire Kelloway, shares how policymakers at all levels of government can hold food corporations to account...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Your Thanksgiving guide to fairer food prices, from @clairek.bsky.social and Food & Power: 🦃🌽
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
Can always count on @grocerynerd.bsky.social to tell it like it is! A great breakdown of the past 5 years of food price hikes, why profiteering is a driver of these price increases, and policies that would help ensure food is a human right
www.forbes.com/sites/errols...
www.forbes.com/sites/errols...
Why High Food Prices Will Make Public Groceries Inevitable
Grocery prices have jumped 25% in just 4 years while consumption volumes have plummeted. Public sector solutions may be the key to bring back affordability.
www.forbes.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Can always count on @grocerynerd.bsky.social to tell it like it is! A great breakdown of the past 5 years of food price hikes, why profiteering is a driver of these price increases, and policies that would help ensure food is a human right
www.forbes.com/sites/errols...
www.forbes.com/sites/errols...
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At Food and Power, @clairek.bsky.social discusses what Mamdani can learn from past and present public grocery projects.
What Mamdani Can Learn from Past and Present Public Grocery Projects
Cities, small towns, and the federal government have all tried running public food markets and grocery stores. New York City can learn from the military commissary system and benefit from Robinson-Pat...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
At Food and Power, @clairek.bsky.social discusses what Mamdani can learn from past and present public grocery projects.
NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani's public grocery store pilot ruffled feathers, but the idea isn't all that new. American cities used to play a big role in food retail running public markets and the military runs a successful public grocery chain for military families. 🧵
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What Mamdani Can Learn from Past and Present Public Grocery Projects
Cities, small towns, and the federal government have all tried running public food markets and grocery stores. New York City can learn from the military commissary system and benefit from Robinson-Pat...
substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani's public grocery store pilot ruffled feathers, but the idea isn't all that new. American cities used to play a big role in food retail running public markets and the military runs a successful public grocery chain for military families. 🧵
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Apropro of nothing, re-upping this op-ed by Zephyr Teachout on what city government can do to create more fair and affordable grocery markets 👀 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
Opinion | New York City Has the Power to Bring Down Grocery Prices. All Cities Do.
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Apropro of nothing, re-upping this op-ed by Zephyr Teachout on what city government can do to create more fair and affordable grocery markets 👀 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
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Rural stagnation is not inevitable; it is a policy choice.
We can begin to fix it at the state-level - with anti-monopoly legislation and by supporting fair competition in agriculture. More from @clairek.bsky.social in our inaugural journal: www.statesforum.org/journal/issu...
We can begin to fix it at the state-level - with anti-monopoly legislation and by supporting fair competition in agriculture. More from @clairek.bsky.social in our inaugural journal: www.statesforum.org/journal/issu...
Fair Markets For Rural America - The States Forum
Every election season, red and blue maps reinforce the myth of “two Americas,” the wealthy, liberal cities and the declining, conservative countryside.
www.statesforum.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Rural stagnation is not inevitable; it is a policy choice.
We can begin to fix it at the state-level - with anti-monopoly legislation and by supporting fair competition in agriculture. More from @clairek.bsky.social in our inaugural journal: www.statesforum.org/journal/issu...
We can begin to fix it at the state-level - with anti-monopoly legislation and by supporting fair competition in agriculture. More from @clairek.bsky.social in our inaugural journal: www.statesforum.org/journal/issu...
President Trump’s plan to import more beef from Argentina hit a nerve with ranchers, not only because it sunk cattle futures, but because U.S. ranchers already feel threatened by unlabeled imports and the powerful multinational packers that profit off of them. substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Bigger Tensions Behind Trump’s Beef with Cattle Ranchers
President Trump’s plan to import more beef from Argentina hit a nerve with ranchers, not only because it sunk cattle futures, but because U.S. ranchers already feel threatened by unlabeled imports.
substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
President Trump’s plan to import more beef from Argentina hit a nerve with ranchers, not only because it sunk cattle futures, but because U.S. ranchers already feel threatened by unlabeled imports and the powerful multinational packers that profit off of them. substack.com/home/post/p-...
ICYMI - Among the many shutdown casualties is the Packers and Stockyards division. It's the latest blow to ag antitrust enforcement after USDA canceled its Farmer Seed Liaison cooperative agreement early last month.
"The shutdown is just the latest blow to agriculture antimonopoly enforcement, as the Trump administration quietly dismantles Biden-era projects."
Read more in @clairek.bsky.social's Food & Power: www.foodandpower.net/latest/shutd...
Read more in @clairek.bsky.social's Food & Power: www.foodandpower.net/latest/shutd...
Shutdown Hits Packers and Stockyards Division, USDA Cancels More Antimonopoly Projects — Food & Power
The shutdown is the latest blow to agriculture antimonopoly work, as the Trump administration cancels Biden-era projects promoting seed competition and state-level antitrust enforcement.
www.foodandpower.net
October 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
ICYMI - Among the many shutdown casualties is the Packers and Stockyards division. It's the latest blow to ag antitrust enforcement after USDA canceled its Farmer Seed Liaison cooperative agreement early last month.
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I raise a few questions about McDonald's commitment to regen ag here. @nsac-sustainableag.bsky.social puts this initiative in context, including major cuts to #USDA staff managing programs that could help farmers. Great reporting by @clairek.bsky.social www.foodandpower.net/latest/mcdon...
How McDonald’s Latest Regenerative Beef Investment Falls Short — Food & Power
RFK Jr. praised McDonald’s $200M donation as the Trump administration cuts USDA staff that support rangeland conservation. Rather than fund short-term projects, advocates want McDonald’s to pay ranche...
www.foodandpower.net
October 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I raise a few questions about McDonald's commitment to regen ag here. @nsac-sustainableag.bsky.social puts this initiative in context, including major cuts to #USDA staff managing programs that could help farmers. Great reporting by @clairek.bsky.social www.foodandpower.net/latest/mcdon...
The OBBB changed a lot of important things, including the way Congress passes food and farm policy. By reauthorizing much of the Farm Bill through the OBBB, including massive SNAP cuts, there's little incentive for Congress to pass a traditional Farm Bill, now or maybe ever again.
Our Food Program manager @clairek.bsky.social spoke with @marketplace.org about the Farm Bill and how the once-bipartisan process for passing it has changed ---> www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...
This year, punctuality is the least of the farm bill’s problems
The sweeping legislation that funds everything from agricultural subsidies to nutrition assistance and conservation program is two years overdue for a full refresh.
www.marketplace.org
September 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The OBBB changed a lot of important things, including the way Congress passes food and farm policy. By reauthorizing much of the Farm Bill through the OBBB, including massive SNAP cuts, there's little incentive for Congress to pass a traditional Farm Bill, now or maybe ever again.
At first the Trump admin said farms & food plants would not be targets for immigration raids, but as pressures mount to meet aggressive deportation targets, that's beginning to change. This threatens US food security and approx. 850,000 immigrant families who have worked on US farms for decades
Read the full story, a collaboration with Successful Farming, at thefern.org/2025/09/is-f...
@clairek.bsky.social
@clairek.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
At first the Trump admin said farms & food plants would not be targets for immigration raids, but as pressures mount to meet aggressive deportation targets, that's beginning to change. This threatens US food security and approx. 850,000 immigrant families who have worked on US farms for decades
Reposted by Claire Kelloway
Read the full story, a collaboration with Successful Farming, at thefern.org/2025/09/is-f...
@clairek.bsky.social
@clairek.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Read the full story, a collaboration with Successful Farming, at thefern.org/2025/09/is-f...
@clairek.bsky.social
@clairek.bsky.social
Kraft Heinz lost 60% of its stock value since merging, and now it wants to split in search of growth.
Getting too big and PE cost-cutting set Kraft Heinz back, but it still dominates many segments of the grocery store, and this split won’t change that.
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Getting too big and PE cost-cutting set Kraft Heinz back, but it still dominates many segments of the grocery store, and this split won’t change that.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
After a Rough Decade, Kraft Heinz Splits Up
Turns out bigger isn’t always better.
substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Kraft Heinz lost 60% of its stock value since merging, and now it wants to split in search of growth.
Getting too big and PE cost-cutting set Kraft Heinz back, but it still dominates many segments of the grocery store, and this split won’t change that.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Getting too big and PE cost-cutting set Kraft Heinz back, but it still dominates many segments of the grocery store, and this split won’t change that.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
With lots of buzz about Mamdani's public grocery pilot, Zephyr Teachout urges mayors to *also* use competition policy to bring down food prices and help local grocers and farmers: ending big box favoritism, commercial bribery, and price gouging www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
Opinion | The Solution to $10 Eggs Lies Within New York City Limits
www.nytimes.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
With lots of buzz about Mamdani's public grocery pilot, Zephyr Teachout urges mayors to *also* use competition policy to bring down food prices and help local grocers and farmers: ending big box favoritism, commercial bribery, and price gouging www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
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Cutting SNAP while widening loopholes for Big Ag: hypocritical and "will drive farm consolidation and raise land prices, hurting smaller farms and young farmers." ✏️ @clairek.bsky.social
Budget Bill Expands Subsidies for Largest Farms, Cuts SNAP — Food & Power
As Republicans added work requirements for SNAP, they also made it easier for non-active farm owners to collect more federal subsidies.
www.foodandpower.net
July 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Cutting SNAP while widening loopholes for Big Ag: hypocritical and "will drive farm consolidation and raise land prices, hurting smaller farms and young farmers." ✏️ @clairek.bsky.social
I recently contributed an essay to the @statesforum.bsky.social's inaugural policy journal on tools that states can use to combat corporate price gouging of rural peoples' basic needs: groceries, healthcare, and equipment repair
statesforum.org/journal/issu...
statesforum.org/journal/issu...
Fair Markets For Rural America - The States Forum
Every election season, red and blue maps reinforce the myth of “two Americas,” the wealthy, liberal cities and the declining, conservative countryside.
statesforum.org
July 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I recently contributed an essay to the @statesforum.bsky.social's inaugural policy journal on tools that states can use to combat corporate price gouging of rural peoples' basic needs: groceries, healthcare, and equipment repair
statesforum.org/journal/issu...
statesforum.org/journal/issu...
Surreal - I was part of the team at @thefern.org that won a James Beard Media award last weekend! 🎉
We’re thrilled to share that three articles from our Special Series “The Farm Bill Fight” won a James Beard Media award in the columns and newsletters category.
June 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Surreal - I was part of the team at @thefern.org that won a James Beard Media award last weekend! 🎉
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In this episode of Gravy, a podcast from the Southern Foodways Alliance, reporter Boyce Upholt digs into a problem that extends well beyond the Gulf Coast: how for decades imported seafood has undercut local prices, effectively killing local fishing fleets in places like Biloxi, Mississippi.
June 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In this episode of Gravy, a podcast from the Southern Foodways Alliance, reporter Boyce Upholt digs into a problem that extends well beyond the Gulf Coast: how for decades imported seafood has undercut local prices, effectively killing local fishing fleets in places like Biloxi, Mississippi.
Reposted by Claire Kelloway
New study from Yale on SNAP work requirements in CT:
-Work requirements cut enrollment by 25%
-Older, sicker people more likely to lose benefits
-After ending work requirements, enrollment didn't return to previous levels
tobin.yale.edu/research/sna...
-Work requirements cut enrollment by 25%
-Older, sicker people more likely to lose benefits
-After ending work requirements, enrollment didn't return to previous levels
tobin.yale.edu/research/sna...
SNAP work requirements have biggest effect on those least able to work
Most people pushed out of SNAP in Connecticut didn’t find their way back in, even when work requirements were later reversed.
tobin.yale.edu
June 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
New study from Yale on SNAP work requirements in CT:
-Work requirements cut enrollment by 25%
-Older, sicker people more likely to lose benefits
-After ending work requirements, enrollment didn't return to previous levels
tobin.yale.edu/research/sna...
-Work requirements cut enrollment by 25%
-Older, sicker people more likely to lose benefits
-After ending work requirements, enrollment didn't return to previous levels
tobin.yale.edu/research/sna...
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Kudos to @clairek.bsky.social and Food & Power blog from the Open Market Institute for it deep look at the even more deeply flawed #MAHA commission report. The conclusion: behind every potentially good idea is an actually policy of Trump that undermines it. Corporate power still rules in #ag.
MAHA Report’s Rhetoric Contradicts Administration’s Actions — Food & Power
The MAHA report says food and chemical corporations should be held accountable for making children sick but the actions of Congress and the Trump administration reveal different priorities.
www.foodandpower.net
May 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Kudos to @clairek.bsky.social and Food & Power blog from the Open Market Institute for it deep look at the even more deeply flawed #MAHA commission report. The conclusion: behind every potentially good idea is an actually policy of Trump that undermines it. Corporate power still rules in #ag.
Reposted by Claire Kelloway
NEW: 🚢⚓️ Our transportation policy analyst Arnav Rao has a big, new report out today on why U.S. maritime power declined - and how to effectively revive it.
Read the report & his corresponding piece in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Read the report & his corresponding piece in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
How America Lost Control of the Seas
Thanks to decades of misguided policy choices, the U.S. has an astonishing lack of maritime capacity.
www.theatlantic.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
NEW: 🚢⚓️ Our transportation policy analyst Arnav Rao has a big, new report out today on why U.S. maritime power declined - and how to effectively revive it.
Read the report & his corresponding piece in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Read the report & his corresponding piece in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
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Fascinating look at how states are trying to deal with an emerging consumer issue.
Grocery chains collect large swaths of data on customers’ location, past purchases, demographics, and web-browsing history to offer targeted advertising, promotions, and prices. As pricing gets more private, shoppers will have a harder time comparing prices and discerning what is truly a deal.
NEW from @clairek.bsky.social's Food & Power:
🛒 States Try to Ban Surveillance Pricing in Grocery Stores and Beyond foodandpower.substack.com/p/states-try...
🛒 States Try to Ban Surveillance Pricing in Grocery Stores and Beyond foodandpower.substack.com/p/states-try...
May 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Fascinating look at how states are trying to deal with an emerging consumer issue.
"The primary conceit [in Abundance] is that in many areas, the private sector is ready to invest—and to invest big—if politicians would only lift public barriers standing in their way. There is little evidence that is true."
“The authors back their claims with anecdotes of regulations stifling development. This is not rigorous argument, however, but a ‘story,’ as the authors themselves put it. The problem is that stories can be deeply misleading.”
Sandeep Vaheesan reviews ABUNDANCE by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson:
Sandeep Vaheesan reviews ABUNDANCE by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson:
The Real Path to Abundance - Boston Review
To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.
www.bostonreview.net
May 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"The primary conceit [in Abundance] is that in many areas, the private sector is ready to invest—and to invest big—if politicians would only lift public barriers standing in their way. There is little evidence that is true."