NCC Responds to Harris Rhetoric on Food Price Gouging

Washington, D.C. – The most recent drumbeat from the Biden-Harris administration blaming the meat and poultry industry for rising meat prices came today from the Harris campaign, noting that the food industry’s “corporate price gouging” would be a focus of the Vice President’s speech tomorrow.

In response, NCC Interim President Gary Kushner released the following statement:

“Americans are seeing inflation in nearly every part of their livelihoods – rent, gas, automobiles, furniture – not just in the meat case.

“Chicken prices are largely affected by supply and demand, by major input costs like corn, soybeans, energy, packaging, transportation, and by fiscal policy and burdensome government regulations. Not price gouging.

“It’s time for this administration to stop using the meat and poultry industry as a scapegoat and a distraction for the root causes of inflation and the significant challenges facing our economy.”

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