Posted on 11/08/2025 5:53:13 AM PST by V_TWIN
President Donald Trump has demanded a Justice Department investigation into meatpacking companies he believes are driving up beef prices through illegal means.
"I have asked the DOJ to immediately begin an investigation into the Meat Packing Companies who are driving up the price of Beef through Illicit Collusion, Price Fixing, and Price Manipulation," Trump posted on Truth Social.
"We will always protect our American Ranchers, and they are being blamed for what is being done by Majority Foreign Owned Meat Packers, who artificially inflate prices, and jeopardize the security of our Nation's food supply.
"Action must be taken immediately to protect Consumers, combat Illegal Monopolies, and ensure these Corporations are not criminally profiting at the expense of the American People," Trump continued.
"I am asking the DOJ to act expeditiously."
Attorney General Pam Bondi responded in a post on X: "Our investigation is underway!"
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Amen.
And child trafficking.
And child labor.
And harboring illegal aliens.
And failure to pay taxes.
And violations of minimum wage laws.
And ….
And …
My understanding is that all that cheap chicken you get at Walmart is cut by 14 year old Guatemalan (and the like) illegal child laborers, and the employers know it.
No it is a fact. The packers have collaborated and quadrupled their middleman markup across the industry... Period...
This is not new, All industries controlled by just a few Megacorporations are doing this... Big Oil has been doing it forever as an example.
Agree.
I never want to accidentally ingest something made in CHINA!
“I voted for this.”
Me too. Trump needs to spend more time on fixing the U.S. economy.
“ Went this week to purchase a brisket normally $60, now it’s $95… what the heck happened?”
The price of graft and corruption has gone up along with everything else.
I was hungry for oxtail stew. I nearly swallowed my upppers to find the cost of ox tail was over $5.50/lb. These used to be a throw away part of the steer - grandma’s choice when times were hard enough that you couldn’t afford hamburger. Same with beef liver. Everything right down to the moo is pricey as hell.
That WAS weird. The way that wild birds knew enough to only poop on integrated corporate farms but not on the property of homesteaders and their flocks.
Back when the government started demanding the registration of just about every animal everywhere other than a gold fish “to protect us from plagues” there were people that refused but it was the stupid sons of bitches in the beef and dairy industry that really pushed for it. We managed to avoid it federally but wound up with a hodge podge of laws across the states. It was about 25 years ago I posted here that I was going to become Americas first famous black market chicken smuggler. When chickens are outlawed, only outlaws will have chickens.
I was assured many times by everyone that wasnt “a spam eating, cave dwelling, militia nut survivalist” that the concerns of those like me related to engineered famine were ridiculous.
25 years ago I was telling the Fudds that the government didnt really care which guns they owned, the laws they were trying to implement were to restrict what their children could own. The antigun propaganda especially in the Clinton years was insane. Its the same here. Governments play the long game even if they seem to do things that are short sighted. They problem elements dont care if you own a full auto chicken, they need to make sure that your children dont.
Beyond the collusion, it was less than a year ago that Tyson foods proudly announced that they were laying off around 1,000 employees in Iowa in favor of focusing on hiring “immigrants” at plants in other locations. As of now, it appears that corporate decision makers, like dozens of others discarding Americans in favor of cheap labor, have not warranted scrutiny.
Back in college in the 80’s it was cheaper buy a cryovac roll of flank steak and grill fajitas than it was to buy hamburger meat and hot dogs for a cookout. Then the bandwagon riders discovered it and the price soared higher than ribeye in less than a year. That trend was later supplanted by “Angus” beef (simply from a predominately black cow), which itself was supplanted by “Wagyu” (which is a little meat with excess fat).
A couple of years ago I told someone that the hysteria about drought really wasnt necessary. It seems they believed that cattle cant be raised anywhere other than the west...where there isnt water for giant thirsty animals...on other peoples land...that they only have access to when a government agency that has told them that it hates them for 70+ years...all because someone wanted to play cowboy like it was still 1860...was not a good business model.
They told me I was an idiot.
All agriculture controlled by the corporations has become corrupted and dangerous while the only ones making profit are the banks. Farmers in integrated operations are employees that dont own anything on their farms other than possibly the land which is actually mortgaged to the bank.
There is a reason that Joel Salatin was brought in as a consultant. Agriculture in all forms must be distributed across as many places with as many private owners as possible to protect the nations food production capacity. The nonsense they teach in college for an ag degree “economy of size” and monocropping has led to farms being backed by millionaire investors looking for a tax loss and the farm owned by banks. Laws better supporting small holders and their production for the local market whenever possible better protects Americans whether consumer or producer.
...”economy of scale” but I suppose buying in giant boxes helps too...
Anyone remember reading of the 1930s when BEEF was the cheapest food during the Depression, IF YOU HAD A JOB.
FDR and the democrats decided to get the price of meat up Up UP by buying up millions of beef and hogs, shooting and burying them to create a shortage.
And all that meat had to be buried, not given to the poor in the Depression.
Wait till you get a cow that has been feasting on Wild Onions! Only way to eat that beef is to take a bite of raw onion first.
Possibly even more importantly is the loss to China, they would no longer have control of the integrated operations and the production of American food.
I dont think many people are really understanding what Trump and his advisors are doing because they become too tied up in the stories and hysteria coming from the media.
The stories about Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Israel/Gaza, India, Canada, Greenland, and Iran have very little to do with what the media narrative is for the issues in that country. There are all actually anti-china cold war maneuvers. Its not drugs or foreign beef or chinese processed chickens or “Trump is Israel first” or any Canadian trade or any of the rest of that crap.
Understand what China has done to poor nations in Africa and the techniques they used to gain power there. These are all also things they do to undermine the US in South America and Canada.
If more people understood what was really happening and how all these pieces interact then they would be happy to pay whatever price the butcher at the edge of town offering. None of those in the West can afford the loss of money and a generation people should we allow China to light the spark. China has had decades to work on a plan and assistance by traitors in our midst to, like Wile E Coyote, lay a long line of gun powder to the US and Trumps team keeps kicking breaks in the line.
And bust them up.
GPOD , NIST MONOPOLIES AND TRISTS!
Bust up.
Isn’t it strange that since Trump became President that there hasn’t been any food processing or food production entities burn down or blow up or millions of chickens and thousands of cattle that have been destroyed? Why did those things happen only under Biden?
Hhm, Brazil shows up twice
Just 4 companies dominate over 80% of beef packing in the U.S. and control the majority of feedlot capacity nationwide. They are:
JBS – This Brazilian-based food giant is the largest beef processor in the world.
Tyson Foods – Tyson Foods is owned by 70.17% institutional investors.
Cargill – It is owned primarily by the descendants of the Cargill and MacMillan families.
National Beef – Majority owned by Brazilian meatpacker Marfig,
If the President were serious, he could revoke regulations making it impossible for small slaughter houses and packers to compete.
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