I didn’t know that meat factors into the price of gasoline, rental housing, electricity, etc.
Please dont conflate what is happening in those markets with the meat markets. There are not three players that set the price paid producers and price charged consumers in those markets. Imagine a world with only three gas stations on 3 corners of one intersection of the world and the other corner has a few hundred guys packed in with 1 quart bottles. Gas is produced in 1 to 5 gallon pails except where the gas stations have bribed the government to not allow production to pass to the original owners kids and forced them to sell the production capability where they now are able to produce 500 gallon quantities.
Robber Barrons behind a corporate veil.
I literally hate everything the goons of the Biden admin have done, and I assume there will be big money extracted from the big 3 packers and nothing will be done, but the thinking is right.
The packers are monopolisticly squeezing both ends. The farmers and consumers are getting bent over and getting what Willie did to Kamala and what she did to the people she prosecuted.