Source: Elizabeth Royle, SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 5/18/20


Due to falling production and rising prices, Americans are expected to eat less meat this year than last. But a coalition of groups led by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) wants Americans to cut back even further, calling for a boycott on “corporate” meat until working conditions in meatpacking plants improve. Inspired by Cesar Chavez, who convinced Americans in the 1960s to quit buying grapes to protest farmworker exploitation, LULAC’s Boycott Big Meat campaign...

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