"Once upon a time, you paid 50 bucks for a steak only if your waiter wore a tux.
Now you pay it under fluorescent lights at the supermarket.
America has over half a million cattle ranches, but almost all that beef must pass through just four processors controlling about 85% of the market. Two of them—JBS and National Beef—are effectively controlled from Brazil.
Brazil is the world's biggest beef exporter. China is the world's biggest buyer. That means China ends up setting the price of dinner in America.
Ranchers get less, you pay more, profits flow overseas.
That's why Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Justice to act.
Americans didn't vote to have their dinner prices set overseas. They voted for leaders willing to break cartels and bring steak back to the dinner table without a tux."
