Posted on 08/25/2021 3:57:53 PM PDT by devane617
Meat wars: why Biden wants to break up the powerful US beef industry Both the planet and US politics have heated up in tandem over recent decades, but few sectors have stewed in controversy quite like America’s beef industry. Four super-powered meatpackers control more than 80% of the US beef market, an extraordinary concentration of market power that the Biden administration is not happy about. A recent executive action signed by the president aims to increase competition in the beef industry, with the White House noting that, over the past five years, “farmers’ share of the price of beef sales has dropped by more than a quarter – from 51.5% to 37.3% – while the price of beef has risen”. But how were the big four meatpackers able to capture so much of the US beef processing capacity? They had help. When explaining the history of consolidation in US meatpacking, it is normal to begin in the age of Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle. In the wake of Sinclair’s muckraking exposé on the industry of the time, Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act, aimed at cleaning up the meat supply for consumer health and challenging the nearly unrestricted power of these players.
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sElections have consequences…
Ha!
StolEctions
Not gonna get cheaper. Dominican Republic just culled 30,000 hogs so far under thepreat of African swine flu spread. China has a similar problem.
I’ve been smoking chicken thighs all summer....this keeps up i’m going to start growing feathers soon...
Prime cuts go to restaurants. There are few prime grade cuts. During the lockdown a local restaurant went to a Columbus restaurant meat distributor to purchase the available products for their establishment. Best meat and prices ever.
2019 for my birthday we grilled out my favorite Porterhouse steaks. There are only two or three porterhouse steaks in a sirloin end of a beef. The butcher a Kroger’s , Troy, Ohio opened enough sirloin ends to get us 16 at a moments notice It all was great!
Tyson. Clinton Crime Family
Congressman Thomas Maddie of Kentucky keeps introducing a bill to allow just what you say, allowing farmers to slaughter and sell direct to consumers.
https://grothman.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2261
One of my kids bought a partial cow from a local farmer, who cut it up.
No, it's about "10% for the Big Guy." Biden wants his cut. This is his way of getting it.
Afterwards, yes.
The billionaires he serves will pay him tens of millions in upfront fees to write a book.
Yikes - almost as bad...
That said, starvation is a common commie tactic...
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