Protecting Food. Empowering Whistleblowers.
Protecting Food. Empowering Whistleblowers.
Reacting to public outcry and extreme concentration of power and monopolies in the meat industry, Congress passes the Packers and Stockyards Act (PSA). The PSA is a set of laws designed to prevent big companies from abusing their power – for example by squeezing farmers and ranchers for profits through unfair pay schemes. The PSA formally established the Packers and Stockyards Administration, an agency bound to enforce the new laws.