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Thomas Massie: America’s Meat Monopoly
YouTube ^ | 13 May 2020 | Thomas Massie

Posted on 05/13/2020 9:30:54 AM PDT by RandFan

Rep. Thomas Massie and Lunatic Farmer Joel Salatin talk about how regulations have created a system that allows just four companies to handle all the meat processing in the US. If you want to buy some fresh meat from a local farmer, that’s illegal, not for reasons of safety, but to protect the interests of these giant corporations.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: americanmeat; bitethehandthatfeeds; joelsalatin; ky; massie; meat; paranoia; thomasmassie
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1 posted on 05/13/2020 9:30:54 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

We have family that buys a cow and has it butchered.


2 posted on 05/13/2020 9:34:05 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: RandFan

Massive and Gohmert are my two favorite congressmen.


3 posted on 05/13/2020 9:34:52 AM PDT by alstewartfan (One day he just washed up on the shores of his regrets. May his soul rest in peace. Al S.)
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To: RandFan

I buy both pork and beef from two local farmers, who process their meat a local, family-run slaughter house. The father and son running the place are true artisans.

With what I have seen these past weeks, I will try to never buy meat from the big corporates again. Its a monopoly, which screws both American farmers and consumers when trouble arises, and being good globalists, while they can’t export meat processing, they instead bring in the poorest-of-the-poor from abroad to work in their plants. The workers’ families then go on the dole.

I’m not going to be part of that any longer.


4 posted on 05/13/2020 9:38:00 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: AlaskaErik

Massie recommends it but says not everyone can afford it:

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1257792724037775363


5 posted on 05/13/2020 9:38:57 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: PGR88

Get local meat and go carnivore.


6 posted on 05/13/2020 9:39:10 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: RandFan

I bought half a freezer beef last week on the hoof.

We also have a local butcher where you roll a cart right in the freezer and just pick what you want from burger, steaks, roasts, pork, chicken, smoked meats, etc. Very nice.


7 posted on 05/13/2020 9:39:25 AM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: RandFan

Why is Salatin a lunatic?


8 posted on 05/13/2020 9:41:03 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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To: RandFan

I raise my own with a friend, we call our self hobby farmers, we keep a 3 cow rotation and it works perfectly.


9 posted on 05/13/2020 9:42:39 AM PDT by heshtesh
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To: Pollard

Probably just a nickname :)


10 posted on 05/13/2020 9:43:01 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

I believe I heard Sen. Grassley say he will introduce a similar bill in the Senate. Trying to confirm.

I believe Iowa and some other states have greatly relaxed their restrictions on custom processing.


11 posted on 05/13/2020 9:43:11 AM PDT by jjotto (“Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.”)
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Wyoming have done it under the 10th Amendment.

https://reason.com/2020/04/04/novel-new-wyoming-law-lets-local-ranchers-sell-cuts-of-meat-directly-to-consumers/


12 posted on 05/13/2020 9:45:16 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

I see. It came from the youtube description. I guess he calls himself that. https://www.thelunaticfarmer.com/

I’ve known about him for a while. Ex-lawyer turned farmer. Feeds a whole lot of people without using chemicals.


13 posted on 05/13/2020 9:47:01 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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To: Pollard

Haven’t heard of him before. Thanks for the link.


14 posted on 05/13/2020 9:49:21 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Full video premieres in two hours, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHLSxNZJyZ8


15 posted on 05/13/2020 9:50:22 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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To: RandFan

his farm, https://www.polyfacefarms.com/


16 posted on 05/13/2020 9:58:19 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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To: RandFan

RandFan wrote:

“Wyoming have done it under the 10th Amendment.

https://reason.com/2020/04/04/novel-new-wyoming-law-lets-local-ranchers-sell-cuts-of-meat-directly-to-consumers/

Need more states to do the same.

Which other ones have?


17 posted on 05/13/2020 10:16:03 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: RandFan

Makes it easier for foreigners to buy those companies.

We are in an era of “Legalized Robber Barons.” It’s the kind of thing that happens when lawyer get elected to make our laws. It’s an automatic conflict of interest.


18 posted on 05/13/2020 10:37:18 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: WildHighlander57

None that I know of.

The WY law is basically what Massie is trying to pass in the House and makes it National!


19 posted on 05/13/2020 10:41:00 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: AlaskaErik

I used to do that at the fair every year the 4H club auction off cattle and pigs I would buy a steer and have it butchered stocked my freezer for the entire year!!


20 posted on 05/13/2020 10:49:05 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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