Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar on Saturday March 30 expressed support for strengthening antitrust laws to eliminate large agricultural monopolies.

“You have these giant corporations that are getting bigger and bigger profits and also pressuring family and small farms,” said Warren at the Heartland Forum, which focused on rural issues.

An American senator from Massachusetts called for the destruction of some of the largest farming corporations “so that they not only do not have such economic power and do not destroy competition, because they take all the profits for themselves. But also so that they do not have such political power "".

Supporting the antitrust approach, Amy Klobuchar, a Senator and Democrat from Minnesota, proposed introducing corporate merger fees to help investigate non-competitive practices. "If we push competition through monopolies, we will not just raise prices for consumers, we will smother entrepreneurship," said the senator .

Focusing on fighting the monopolies was a key part of Warren's agricultural policy last week, which included several proposals aimed at helping family farmers compete in a market that is increasingly saturated with large corporations.