There's been endless talk, but Biden is actually trying to do something to break the stranglehold of

[TexasTowelie]

There’s been endless talk, but Biden is actually trying to do something to break the stranglehold of meatpackers.


It’s ridiculous that meatpackers are making record profits on beef while ranchers in South Dakota and the rest of the nation are barely breaking even on their cattle.

A few days ago The New York Times did an in-depth piece on the subject titled “Record beef prices, but ranchers aren’t cashing in.” If you look at the piece, you’ll read the same story that ranchers have been trying to tell for decades: the meatpacking industry has gotten so concentrated that it has effectively eliminated real competition for cattle purchases. There just aren’t enough bidders to make a decent, competitive market for cattle producers.

A Montana rancher quoted in the NYT piece put it succinctly: “you’re feeding America and going broke doing it.”

As a partner in a cattle feeding operation back in the ‘90s, I can appreciate the frustration because it seemed like a regular flow of profits to meatpackers only sporadically trickled down to ranchers. I remember trying to sell slaughter-ready cattle to a tiny number of buyers, sometimes just one, who rarely differed much in what they would pay for our steers and heifers.

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(South Dakota Standard)

[multigraincracker]

1. If the producers got together and

stopped selling all cattle for just one month, they would have the packers on their knees.
Organize.

In the mean time, support the politicians that are ready to "Bust the Trust".

[BComplex]

2. How many of those ranchers vote for the republicans, top AND bottom of the ticket?

Republicans are the party against ANY type of regulation....except against POC voting, and women's bodies, of course. The ranchers, and other republican voters, need to figure this out some day, and it's high time democrats and democratic elected officials and candidates start making it totally clear.

[JI7]

3. The problem is when they go to vote they vote on other issues

[BComplex]

4. But it all ends up coming down to the same problem. That's why democrats need to learn how to

get our message out better. Everything we do is better for the majority, and always better on the big issues.

[JI7]

5. The problem is not messaging. The problem is racism of these people

[Hortensis]

7. Refusal to admit conservatives have OTHER issues important to them

reflects increasing extremism, not just toxic partisanship.

Extremism is being spread and weaponized to get us to join the right in destroying our democracy.

Representative government literally cannot exist without cooperation and compromise.

Biden said, “Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism, it’s exploitation.” That's something we and conservative cattle ranchers can agree on. Fervently.

[ShazamIam]

6. Ya well we can bet all those weeping ranchers have been voting Republican who are intent on

monopolization and privatization of everything.