Corporate Welfare or Survival Previous Democratic campaign promises of antitrust investigations into Big Ag have likely diminished with the lack of a Blue Wave in this week’s election but there are substantive reasons for its decline. Much as automobile manufacturing evolved from a largely domestic affair dominated by the Big Three, agricultural commodity handling and processing has been globalized. Instead of just the ABCD’s controlling 73 percent of global grain trade as Oxfam claims they did almost a decade ago, they now compete with Japan’s sōgō shōsha, coops out of Europe, trading houses that previously focused on mining and handling metals, and more importantly, newly evolving state-owned enterprises.  In Chin...

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