How about sliced bread? Is that also a part of your vast conspiracy theory?That what the "free market" has produced..........monopolies.
Part 3 – Meat Mergers and the Rise of The Big 4 - 1915 Farm
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1915 Farm
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Mergers starting 50 years ago marked the beginning of a massive consolidation that resulted in meatpackers with nearly double the power they held 120 years ago.
A century after the 1921 Packers and Stockyards Act was implemented to reign in the five firms that made up The Meat Trust – here we are again, with one less packer, wielding significantly more control of the market, with far less government regulation.
Four giant companies – that’s right, FOUR – Tyson, Cargill, and Brazil-based National Beef and JBS, now control 85% of the U.S. beef market. WH Group (Chinese), JBS, Hormel, and Tyson control about 67% of the pork market. Tyson and Pilgrims Pride control about 45% of the chicken market.
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Kellogg Insight
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Jun 1, 2022 — They are all products made by companies that have been prosecuted for price-fixing by the U.S. Department of Justice.
What do canned tuna, auto parts, and turbine generators have in common?
They are all products made by companies that have been prosecuted for price-fixing by the U.S. Department of Justice. In effect, industry players were acting as a cartel, colluding to set high prices.