They Really Are Gangsters, Thugs, and Thieves

Ranchers struggling to survive deserve to know what happened to their markets, and who is complicit in the destruction of agriculture’s largest industry. We all have a stake in this.

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Notes: Click on this link for slide 26, the video in the Dr. Heffernan slide: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2UQsw_qdy8s

Other references:

Vicious Circles – Big meat packers continue to suck the blood out of cattle industry

Big meatpackers are gangsters, thugs, and thieves

Emptiness: https://nobull.mikecallicrate.com/2010/08/02/history-repeated/

Vice: Meathooked and End of Water

Salt, Water, and Soil – When it’s gone, they leave

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-07-02/jbs-brazilian-butchers-took-over-the-world

Meat Cartel Threatens Food Security

https://apnews.com/article/d6dcbfa7ebcb4842b9ad49e44615c5e0

Texas A&M, and Other Land-Grant Economists, Lead Effort to End Competitive Livestock Markets

https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/assistant-attorney-general-jonathan-kanter-delivers-remarks-fordham-competition-law-0?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The Antitrust Revolution, by Barry Lynn: https://harpers.org/archive/2024/10/the-antitrust-revolution-big-tech-barry-c-lynn/

Boxed beef was a bad idea: https://nobull.mikecallicrate.com/2024/01/22/return-to-carcass-trade-is-essential-for-cattle-industry-and-rural-prosperity/

Maker-Owned Marketplaces

McDonald’s is suing Tyson Foods for allegedly choking the supply chain to raise prices