Host Stacy Mitchell speaks with Leah Douglas, a staff writer and associate editor at the Food and Environment Reporting Network. They explore how advocates, local communities, and states are taking on agriculture monopolies. Topics discussed include: how consolidation in the food industry is forcing farmers out of business [2:32]; why chicken farmers have become dependent on their corporate buyers [5:14]; the collapse of the dairy industry and its local impacts [10:55]; the policy decisions that consolidated our agriculture industry [19:30]; how we can bring back an economy that helps independent farming in the future [22:31]; and how communities are fighting against big agriculture at the local level [27:39].