Groups Back GIPSA

A coalition of 66 farm, consumer, rural and rural development organizations from across the United States believe that GIPSA is well within its authority to issue proposed regulations clarifying how the agency intends to administer and enforce the nearly 90-year-old Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921. In a letter sent to Congress before the comment period extension was announced - the group called delaying the comment period little more than an effort to delay and ultimately derail the proposed rule itself.

The joint letter states that the Packers and Stockyards Act makes it unlawful for packers, swine contractors and live poultry dealers to engage in any unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive practice or device, or to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person or locality in any respect, or subject any particular person or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect.