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.
Independent Beef Association of North Dakota sept 2024 final2Use arrows at the top of slide to advance through the presentation.
Notes: Click on this link for 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
Emptiness: https://nobull.mikecallicrate.com/2010/08/02/history-repeated/
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-07-02/jbs-brazilian-butchers-took-over-the-world
https://apnews.com/article/d6dcbfa7ebcb4842b9ad49e44615c5e0
Texas A&M, and Other Land-Grant Economists, Lead Effort to End Competitive Livestock Markets
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/