Beef Packing Scumbags: Who they are, and how we got here

[@grantd1011]

We’ve lived on a small beef cattle farm in North Carolina for over 50 years. It’s terrible to think about how cattle prices have hardly increased over the years. I remember back in the early 90’s getting $1.00 per pound on the hoof at the stockyards. The average price per pound today has barely moved to around $1.50. It’s ridiculous. With the price of fertilizer, fuel, equipment, etc., it’s usually a loss for us each year. We just keep doing it because it keeps taxes low on our property and we’ve always had cattle. It’s really just an expensive hobby. It’s definitely not a money making business. My youngest daughter of 3 is the only one interested in keeping the farm going when she gets older. I’m not so sure it’ll still be viable. Sad.

[@grantd1011]

Oh and also, good luck finding a meat processor that doesn’t have a backlog of over a year. Government regulations keep the small processors out of business,

[@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013]

I assume your West of the rain belt, but if not look into the work of Greg Judy. Its one way to make ranching viable! I'm sure it will sound crazy to you at first, but its a system that works wonders. It would be worth moving to rain country to save your families ranching lifestyle. Good luck to your family. I hope you pass the ways on to your children and they succeed!

[@benth162]

I used to be a meat cutter for Safeway Stores Inc. many years ago, for five years, as well as working on a dairy off and on for eighter years before becoming a meat cutter, so I know a little about beef. What you are stating are my "Suspiciousns Confirmed". You are not the only one speaking out and thank god you are. When I see steaks at $15 per steak I knew something was amiss. They, you know they are were trying to make it look like ranchers were the problem when I knew that they were not, because they have to sell their cattle when the correct weight is reached. They tried to make it look like the ranchers were withholding their cattle until they received a better price at auction, which I knew was a bunch of bull shit This is why I keep saying that because of the lockdowns and that phony virus crap large corporations were and ARE gouging the market even though they try and portray it is fact that they are not, which again is a bunch of bull shit. If the markets were left alone meat prices would be going down not up because with less purchases with people in lockdown, the ranchers still have to sell their cattle which should have dropped the prices received at auction which then should have worked its way down to we the consumers, but the opposite is what happened because Tyson and their ilk were fucking us over for a buck for their stake and stockholders. Those CEOs should be shot, if not put in prison for the rest of their lives !!!

[@actuallyKriminell]

Bring the gallows back folks

[@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013]

100% brother, we are long overdue for a good rope tree party, and if it aint us that do it, it wont ever happen.

[@IimmanSdexterXan]

imported beef is the monster . we have it here in the UK. places like Tesco Asda Morrisons and such more like to import beef in to the UK as they sell it at top prices but the truth is is that the cuts are sub quality in the least. however i very near always buy top specie cut here in the UK . Aberdeen A is one. like here there is a enticement to buy the coloured (English spelling*) packaged selections. you need a change in the consumer market area re-educating then that the imported/packaged cuts are and in fact are utter Shinola and pound for pound a utter waste of dollar x. Buy USA beef, simples. Ranchers start packaging your own xx.

[@Horseluvver]

Vote for Kennedy. Please. We're doomed without him.

[@MikellVanderlaan]

You are right on the money. As a former Texas Department of Ag employee way back in the 80s, its was a different world. One where the guys getting the exclusive ear of Commissioners were at the front-end of the process (the farmers and ranchers), not the tail end willing to BRIBE (the grocery chains and meat packers) ... Collectively, if we are going to fix anything, we need to fix this first.

[@karleyhoffman4851]

Thank you for being a voice for the US cattle ranchers. And bringing to light all the corruption in packers!

[@christinecortese9973]

Well said. My brother has been telling me this for years. Corruption is the rule in politics these days. My neighbor wants to start raising a few head of cattle with me. Researching the business costs is a bit sobering but the way things are going we might just have to jump in.

[@dbirdeycapozzi9807]

Good thinking! We need no 'middle-man'!

[@IimmanSdexterXan]

x

[@RSMunchel]

I hope you do it. I've been praying for God bless all who raise cattle. We need you!!

[@martylesnick2032]

AS A RANCHER ONCE TOLD ME " THERE ARE 6 PEOPLE TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING OFF THAT ONE COW!." Susan

[@stephentalbert2272]

I am proud of your willingness to stand up and speak truth about an industry that is so corrupt and dishonest. When the cattle producers in this country stand up and can get the american people educated about buying beef from american producers not overseas we can make changes that help american producers and the consumer. Thank you

[@socaloutdoors7355]

This is probably the farthest from what I usually watch on KZbin…but this is the SECOND vid of yours I’ve watched. Being INFORMED is important. I just sub’d. Thanks for enlightening us that are pretty ignorant to this kinda BS.

[@Channel-rb5hr]

From Alaska thank you for the information Please don't stop I have put you on my Facebook and Twitter to help get your information out this November I turn 70 and for years I have watched America being sold out from underneath us. Once again Thank You keep up the good work

[@gladesmith2943]

You are right on I worked for JBS in Sales for many years. It's sad how they screw the Producers! Just more Government being bought off. Great Presentation

[@ShadSullivan74]

Corruption runs deep into corporations and bureaucratic overreach.

[@nicholashazlett4369]

Seems pretty clear to me that this is a bureaucratic under reach situation. Any Corporation must grow, it is up to our government to step in. We all agree monopolies are no good. The bureaucracy needs to be strengthened to avoid this

[@charlesbrown4483]

@@nicholashazlett4369 Ah yes, the same entities who were entrusted to protect us then took the bribes to destroy us… and the way to fix that is by giving those same entities more power and more responsibility… A truly astounding logical disconnect.

[@SignedOff402]

Bankers are also open to bribes.

[@bravobravoh1344]

If they would have offered our president a bribe, he probably would've taken it.

[@actuallyKriminell]

It is easy to come to such a shallow conclusion. However it is the beaurocracy that limits how free people can do business. If every solo farmer had to hire a lawyer and a secretary just to do all the paperwork it wouldnt be feasible finacially. Only globohomo megacorps (that benefit from rulescreep) can continue to run

[@stevenhochman1]

I have been in many sectors of the meat industry. This man is 95 plus correct. The USDA boxed beef prices are not 100% due to unreported out front contracts. The farmers who are finishing the cattle are not getting their fair share as the packers become fully integrated.

[@beanmeupscotty]

Great video. Hope your channel blows up, especially in the wake of the high-level bureaucratic & corporate crazies saying that we as a nation (and even as a planet) are on our way to "unavoidable food scarcity", as if it were some prophetic vision. I hope that this sentiment of generalized apathy to what's going on in the packing/processing industry disappears quickly. It really can't sit on the backburner any longer now that it's quickly approaching a breaking point. I think the one of worst new accomplishments to their horrible ever-growing list of deeds is their successful implementation of blatant propaganda against the tireless workers who are actually true to the spirit of farming and ranching. As a lifetime suburbanite, I could have fallen for the misdirection if not for already knowing plenty of people in the ag industry to prevent ignorance. Truly sad the hateful things some people are willing to do in the name of greed.

[@Decentralized_Maze]

Thank you for informing others and all your efforts daily!

[@dbirdeycapozzi9807]

You're giving important clarifications that feed our progress toward common sense. Common sense has been uncommon for a long time, but it is returning, and I thank you with all my heart for persisting!

[@KO-ov6kg]

I just moved to Mexico, and the first thing I noticed was the price of beef is half of what it is in the USA. I get T-Bone for $7 a pound, burger is $3 a pound at an upscale grocery store (Soriana).

[@topbark5]

Great information. It is clear that we all understand that the beef packing corporations, and the government so called 'gatekeepers' are corrupted; it's time to create the solutions for our own communities. Localization, for example, is a positive response to corporate greed. Helena Norberg-Hodge is on KZbin and is an expert in localization. We as the people will make change, not the corporate run government.

[@freebird1ification]

they will shut you down faster than swatting a fly

[@actuallyKriminell]

_All food sales now have to go through gov approved middleman to prevent corruption in this great food crisis.All else will be met with harsh punishment_ -future politician

[@actuallyKriminell]

_Thank God for mass surveillance_ -past, current and future sheeple

[@verteup]

@@freebird1ification you can buy a cow straight from a farmer near you (no matter where you live in the US theres a beef farm near you) and take it to a butchershop near you (no matter where you live theres a butchershop near you). This is the answer. Stop buying walmart beef. Buy local and keep your money close to you. This would shut down the packers over night.

[@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013]

@@freebird1ification Not if we use the rifles for their intended purpose.

[@JamesThomas-dn6hz]

sounds like beef farmers need to create a co-op with independent butchers. A web page where consumers can buy directly from ranchers, like ebay, and then the rancher has a partnership with a, local to them, independent butcher. Beef is butchered and shipped or can be picked up. Ranchers children can make a side hustle delivering the meat to butcher and/or consumer. Would be a neat business model. Each ranch would have its own reputation for quality and stock. I am not a rancher, so I don't know the details, but maybe a retired rancher works with the grand kids to create a marketplace.

[@rustyvoiceinwilderness9580]

The BUSINESS PLAN description of the packing plants is an "HOUR GLASS". After BSE in Canada we hired several retired CFO's and COO's of IBP and Cargill. The man from IBP had to defend IBP to the USDA in an 8 year window against collusion. I think that was in the 80's. He told me that IBP had "1 Red Month, with an ROI of 33% after tax." The man from Cargill "right out of Kansas City" said they would not build a major facility, be it grain or meat, was assurance that it could be capitalized out in 3 or 4 years. The head meat buyer for 4 grocery chains said "Cargill blackmails us into buying their meat". Feedlot owners were told, "if you get involved in the new upstart plant, we will forget your phone number". Our business plan using Canadian live prices and operating costs showed profit margins beyond reportable. The business plan is an "Hour-Glass" with the packer in the middle.

[@MegaBreyergirl]

Thank you for taking the time to educate people.

[@alancline2810]

The anti- trust laws that were put in place back in the day to prevent this sort of thing have been systematically gutted over the years by both parties. We the people need to get big money out of government.

[@lexwaldez]

It's too late. The Supreme Court said there's no correlation to massive donations and corruption and giving money (bribes) is a form of free speech. It's a done deal. We need terms limits of a single term, outlaw lobbyists, and that's never going to happen. Rich folks are getting richer and they'll spend big to make sure it stays that way.

[@captainkirk1745]

WELL, IF YOU WANT TO QUIT STANDING AGAINST CORRUPTION, SIT IT OUT. WINNERS KEEP FIGHTING AND,L SO DO GOOD LAWYERS!! NEVER, EVER, QUIT OR GIVE UP!!!

[@KKSuited]

@@lexwaldez term limits only change who is being bribed on a regular basis. It doesn't stop the bribing.

[@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013]

@@lexwaldez The only chance I see that we have at this point is to stop using our rifles as emotional support toys and put them to their intended use.

[@spentmanspath421]

Keep speaking your truth brother!

[@NorthAmericaAg]

Great points Jim! Something has to change.

[@andrewj228]

Thanks for your videos. You explain this so well.

[@jamessawdey8182]

Won’t change until we change the people responsible to enforce those Anti-Trust laws. Congress needs to enforce the law as it was done before the Regan administration who put a different spin on how the law is enforced. Grew up in Ag and cannot believe that our legislators can justify letting this go on.

[@phaedrussmith1949]

Along these lines, investigate the largest landowners in ranch country. Spoiler alert: It's not your local rancher.

[@baileysthree]

I had no idea..... Thank you for bringing this to light. I will be following your channel more! Thank you.

[@jeffmatson5616]

I am so very thankful that you brought up the simple fact that this is not a two-party issue this is actually breaking our laws this is an American justice issue bottom line united we stand that is very important right here right now currently we should almost shut down every single centers office and bring the facts right up to the surface especially the 60 minutes program to expose blatant ignorance either of these senators and our justice system pulls together or we shut them down we have to protect our industry immediately.

[@georgerydberg4393]

Sad state of things for ranchers and farmers along with the consumer.

[@ringokidd387]

Please Support your Local 4H and FFA ! Attendance and support in programs are down big time they're even hitting our kids academically with this also telling them they don't need shop to learn a trade they don't need 4-H they don't need FFA this is all untrue we need these programs the kids need them our nation needs them our farmers and ranchers need them!

[@marvinschmitz3442]

Your video is partially correct. I grew up on a Kansas average farm, but then went to work at the Excel beef packing house in Wichita, KS. After a few years working there they merged with Mosouri beef packers to make it MBPXL packing co. I left the company before it became cargill which I heard from old friends was a nightmare to work for. Our problem is we have a whole government system full of crooks.

[@MrPinenut57]

This was a very well put together presentation. Stop buying meat from the grocery stores, go to your local butcher and buy bulk and support your local cattle ranches.

[@Backinblackbunny009]

This reminded me about the book methlands, about why meth became so ubiquitous and it pointed to addled Ronnie letting corporate consolidation where meat packers bought slaughterhouses, tore up their agreements with any unions, and financed the purchase by borrowing against the business and its assets and paid for their purchase by cutting wages down to the bone, forcing people to work 3times as many shifts to bring home the same sized paycheck which required chemical stimulants to keep them going and all the fallout, that brought. It destroyed rural farming communities the same way crack destroyed black urban communities. And as long as people blame easy scapegoats like satanists, feminists, environmentalists, or gays in Hollywood and not unrestrained robber barons and their wall street minions, nothing will change. We'll still have the same worthless politicans saying the same worthless slogans while our lands flood and our forests burn and the southwest dissoves into dust.

[@David-j4v3u]

I agree with just about everything you said. Except most fortune 500 companies DO behave in the same way.

[@Iluvchknz]

I’ve bought direct to consumer from a local farmer for both my pork and beef for more than a decade. He’s had the hardest time getting processing dates. I’ll become a vegan before I will buy meat from a grocery store.

[@ma_abbott]

W/o our representatives/senators writing legislation, the open market would look different. Corporations hire/own lobbyists. Lobbyists write legislation. Legislators put their name(s) on it. Vote. Receive campaign contributions. It’s a circle of USD.

[@uncouthboy8028]

I wish it was just campaign contributions. Those are at least somewhat trackable.

[@dbirdeycapozzi9807]

...all with the original Intention to deceive. UNSUSTAINABLE !

[@osteopathichomeopathicking6154]

Same thing happening here with the telecommunications companies in Canada. Internet, phone, and TV is thru the roof price wise.

[@denise...b]

Same thing happened in South Australia when they privatised electricity. The providers collude to drive up prices and the cheapest providers fall out of the market. Free enterprise doesn't work without competition.

[@galegregory97]

Yeah they going to continue to do so I know Tyson's food is always been crooked I used to work near their factory I heard horror stories about their employees so you can figure something's happening to the employees there's something on the market going on too so you just filled in the gap. Thanks so much. And there's no doubt you know what you're talking about

[@angelosophy]

Its not a monopoly, its an oligopoly. The cell phone corporations have the same structure as well. A few companies collectively own all the infrastructure and they meet and agree on how to set prices. Its technically not a monopoly, but it might as well be.

[@vanlilly3873]

Consumers going directly to farmers/ranchers to purchase a beef would stop this in it's tracks.

[@dbirdeycapozzi9807]

YES!

[@charlesbrown4483]

Well unfortunately the governments would do everything in their power to stop that from happening. So it wouldn’t be as easy as “just go to the farmers,” it would also entail a violent uprising of the working class against corrupt government and their corporate butt buddies…

[@josephdockemeyer6782]

That's been tried with the Amish. Now Amish farms are being raided by the Feds.

[@vanlilly3873]

@@josephdockemeyer6782 maybe I should clarify. A private individual can go to a local farmer and purchase a calf ready for slaughter. That calf is then transported to a USDA licensed slaughter house. The slaughter house and the private individual decide which cuts of meat and the wrapping. The slaughter bill is paid by the individual. The meat is is then picked up at the slaughter house ready for the freezer.

[@josephdockemeyer6782]

@@vanlilly3873 I wasn't disagreeing with you. Just trying to convey how bad it's getting. We're losing our freedoms. I like your ideas and appreciate your helpfulness to everyone who reads your comments

[@hollywoodboggie]

Great work! Thank you for the clarity.

[@annhutcheson5770]

Last fall we purchased a local animal, raised a mile from our home, by folks we love, know and trust. 100% organic, grass fed. After all was said and done, we were at 650 pounds at $3.69 a pound all-in, after processing. Absolutely delicious. Incidentally, the price for organic, grass-fed hamburger at Safeway was $15.99 a pound at the time. I know it’s not possible for everyone, but if you can do it, it’s the only way to go. Farm ➡️ Fork. Also… Immunity ENDS where the Second Amendment BEGINS. 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸

[@Backinblackbunny009]

I lived on army bases for most of my adulthood, I shoot clay pigeons for sport, I'm not scared of guns but I find gun culture to be mostly populated by men who felt emasculated by tinder so this right here is y'alls chance to prove that arseal isn't just an expensive pacifier to pull out when someone with impotence needs to bully poor latin immigrants or the one kid that came out as trans at the local HS. Force the local slaughterhouse to pay a fair price for their cows! Demand a work stoppage or prevent them from shipping out their overpriced hamburgers! Stand up to your corporate overlords for once instead of backing them. Seems to me that the 2nd amendment is useless in a country where folks would rather obsess about the genitals and bathroom habits of schoolkids instead of the massive fraud and corruption affecting 99.999% of the population and going on right in front of god and everyone.

[@chrisfoxwell4128]

@@Backinblackbunny009 , you can stand in front of the slaughterhouse with the soy boys and show them how to use your gun.

[@cmkat9210]

👍🏻

[@charlesbrown4483]

@@Backinblackbunny009 You’re the mega woke one whose suppose to hate corporations with a burning passion. Why haven’t you eaten the rich yet tough guy? You clearly endorse a violent sociopolitical uprising of the working class, so where’s your hammer and your sickle? You can’t have your cake and eat it too, either hate guns or love violent revolution. Which one is it?

[@po4RP20361]

@@Backinblackbunny009 You clearly make too many assumptions to argue with but your way off on your assessment of "gun culture"

[@unclelarry9138]

I am not a farmer but I buy as much as I can from the local farmers and butcher shops.

[@devriescustomleather1109]

good job lad! JBC also shut down all of the Pilgrim chicken growers in east Texas, sold the land and made the buyers tear down the broiler houses!!!!

[@tabormiston179]

I want fresh beef straight from the rancher! I know they make it dam near impossible to do that but we need to!

[@jwr2904]

More people need to see this. I'm not surprised, we need another Theodore Roosevelt

[@WhereIsGault]

100yrs ago 90% of the people lived in rural areas, so people were more in touch with the farmers/ranchers around them. Today 90% of the people live in cities, and straight up don't give a s*&$ about where their food comes from. I know Citidiots that really think their food comes from the stores. They have no idea. The only thing that I see we can do is don't plant, and don't sell livestock for a yr. But, who can go a yr without income, not many. The farmers around here are breaking off the house and a couple of acres and selling the rest. Huge corporate farms are gobbling up EVERYTHING. We had a farm go for estate auction that should of gone for 300k, and was going to, but right at the last second a corp. farm said 1mil. How can the small farmer keep up. Forget getting a good horse (thanks yellowstone).

[@lexwaldez]

Find a family member/friend, split a side of beef, buy it directly from a farmer, and have it butchered locally. It tastes better, it's better for you, and it's better for your farmer and local economy. Same goes for hogs and chickens.

[@donaldseitz5292]

Remember way back, when IBP was small and sued Swift for being a monopoly and then took there place quite quickly.

[@JeffAboularage]

This was a great presentation. Thank you sir.

[@thedocisin3204]

Well back in the mid 70's I was living in Ottawa KS and worked for IPB down in Emporia. I worked pulling flank steaks. We worked 6 days a week because of a long term strike. The money was real good. Loved my coworkers. Did the job for a year and a half. Bought a loaded Barracuda and drove home to New England. Just another chapter in my life.

[@flyingbassett4332]

Really would like to buy directly from the ranchers, farmers, dairy folks etc. Why is that so dang hard to do? Goberment rules? What is it?

[@lt1nut]

I am not the best person to answer this *but* you posted 9hrs ago and there's no reply. Hopefully this will draw some attention for a much better answer/reply (please assume that my explanation is not 100% accurate). Once a "cow"(I mean no offense if that is the wrong term) is cut (or not alive?) it (or it's individual part/cuts?) can only be sold to the public if it has been "USDA Inspected". Not all butchers are capable of that, want to do that, and/or it increases their overhead/responsibilities in various ways and that cost is passed onto the purchaser. I have bought halves/sides of a live "cow" from a very small (18-ish?) local farmer/friend here in SE WI. -- I contact him and we talk about what I want (whole, half, quarter), what is ready and coming up, when it could/should be delivered to the butcher, and if he has others lined-up for the rest of the cow. Timing is dependent on him selling the whole cow and him "finding" someone(s) to buy the other half (or two for each quarter). Sometimes he'll call me if he has 1/2 of a cow spoken for ("sold"). -- The farmer contacts the butcher, schedules the drop-off/delivery date, informs them of his customer(s) info (I guess the customer technically/legally owns the cow once its delivered alive to the butcher), and informs me of the date. -- I call the butcher (or they call me), give them/confirm my info and credit card #, and we discuss the cutting schedule (duration of aging, cuts/pieces, thickness, amount of fat on the steaks and % in the/any ground beef and/or burgers, any sausage, etc). -- The farmer calls me when it's dropped off at the butcher and the butcher calls me to confirm no changes in the cutting schedule. -- I pay the farmer per pound of live weight, measured at/buy the butcher. -- Butcher calls me when its ready to be picked up, I ask how much it weighed and how many "laundry baskets" (bins, boxes, etc) I should bring. -- I arrive at the butcher, give him my credit card, and they wheel out the carts that contain my meat - cut, wrapped in white butcher's paper with each one labeled as to what it is, etc. -- The farmer contacts me to make sure everything is good went well. He'll also usually call me 1-2 months afterwards, if we haven't run into each other at church or Farm & Fleet, to make sure that the steaks, roasts, burgers, etc taste good. I got carried away with this but hopefully it'll help.

[@dbirdeycapozzi9807]

Change begins by taking that first step. It is much less difficult than it may seem!

[@rowmacg]

Maybe it might be a good idea for livestock producers to get together and form some sort of cooperative to start a meat packing plant of their own???

[@eddiecarrillo4120]

GREED AND CORRUPTION... Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

[@russneversleeps8258]

Yet another reason to just get rid of USDA. No need for federal food overlords. Bureaucracy only serves to make a place for corruption to occur.

[@cfitzwater01]

Why doesn’t the Cattlemen’s Association have their own Beef packing Facilities?

[@mrblack1505]

My cousin and her husband raise beef. We are buying our first quarter from them this month and I have no idea why we put it off for so long.

[@kingswood2149]

I support a local farm buy beef and milk from them but keep finding something looks like blue dye dripped into meat from packaging which has blue stamp on them for last 4mo like this the owner was supposed to check into it but I'm still finding it in almost every 1lb package what is it is it dangerous

[@keezjordan1619]

Bring back the local BUTCHER shop. EVERYWHERE!

[@occa7941]

I am paying $8.00 for 1 pound of " grass fed organic beef" Walmart, were i buy it from and its their brand, i would like to know if its possible that the meat they are selling is probably a lie? And it might not be organic or Grass fed? How could i find out?

[@createa.googleaccount713]

Thank you so much! 🇺🇸🐄 God Bless You! 🙏💖

[@IimmanSdexterXan]

Bless you my American cousin. keep the bovine faith. from England UK.

[@johnwhorton3683]

This is the ''deregulation'' politicians are always talking about.

[@aliyahu76]

Solution? Start butchering and private selling. Keep your place clean and be mindful of your consumer like your own family. Nothing to worry about!

[@justinsowa1972]

This is interesting information. How do we the consumer change the situation? Is there a way to buy from the growers and farmers? Is there legislation at the federal level that needs support?

[@hugodavila5879]

Funny how corporations have more laws of protection and rights then citizens/ people

[@suzannethwing5211]

Check out Reiner Fuellmich , his history and what he’s currently working on. Class Action Suit

[@ThePmloc]

Has the Co-op system been tried?

[@yeshuaisking6320]

It used to be called srealing, which was a crime. You should put all this on a graph ...a picture is worth 1,000 words. Just a time line of the last 30 years would paint some wild pictures. And save you thousands of words. Hey bro i can see that you are an amazing human being. Thanks and GODS BLESSINGS FOR YOU!

[@etherealceleste]

The government doesn't just allow it, they encourage it with laws that prevent smaller companies from competing.

[@masonvanluven6523]

I’m curious if you have a take on yard monkey in auction yards. The yards themselves are being consolidated by one company, and those that have been consolidated have workers in the back working without benefits, pensions, etc. I get the whole cowboy culture, but when my grandpa worked in a yard he had a defined benefit pension plan. What gave? Thanks for your videos! You’re a champion for us in this business

[@brentkelley9560]

Just a thought. Could you form a coop with other ranchers, and start your own packing plant, like Tilamook?

[@therealsideburnz]

Might be possible, the thing is regulations on things like slaughter houses, packing plants and dairy processing plants are so onerous you need gobs and gobs of money in order to meet them. And staying on top of those regulations/dealing with inspectors is a full time job in itself.

[@uncouthboy8028]

Wow that's a lot of politicians going to jail in Brazil. Thankfully, in America, we have no politicians going to jail. Meaning we are not corrupt! I'm so thankful. Just imagine if America was like a third world country!

[@camyellowface1350]

I hope your being sarcastic .

[@uncouthboy8028]

@@camyellowface1350 Pure sarcasm

[@camyellowface1350]

@@uncouthboy8028 check 👍,you never know with these progressives nowadays.

[@boblongmore907]

Great overview as to whats happening.

[@bbmw9029]

The ranchers should start their own beef packing coop, and cut out the middlemen (or become their own middleman.) Look at Land 'o Lakes as a model.

[@ratherbwithhorses]

The government doesn't allow that. Control of slaughter by government is the worst of the whole food chain. Beaurocray ruled by corruption is deliberately hurting the whole process

[@bbmw9029]

@@ratherbwithhorses actually it's been done, but the big corporate meat packers squeezed the customers of the indie not to buy from him. It was in another of this guy's vudeos

[@ratherbwithhorses]

@@bbmw9029 I will.

[@scottcaverly5135]

Everything going on nowadays is something that has been going on before money was even created.. The name of the game is,....When is it going to stop? And when are people going to become treated fairly just for living ? Food and water are necessities for life

[@adeptdetailing1567]

What would happen if ranchers got together and stopped shipping to the Packers. Something like a co-op where you have a facility to pack? I'm ignorant on the subject. Just a question.

[@Allegan49010]

Follow the money!!!

[@kathydelucia123]

It saddens me to know how corrupt every part of our government is.

[@fatzlebowski1549]

They can't force us to eat the bugs until you are out of business, and the 3 or 4 players left all agree to stop selling meat, and start selling bugs.

[@marksherrill9337]

So they are consolidating and marking it up after a near monopoly. I was wondering how beef prices jumped . The lumber mills are making large profits also. I’m not against profit but I understand the mills made an agreement like a union, then all of a sudden lumber was sky high.

[@txelmore]

Two questions. Where do these corporations get their products to package? What can we do about it as average consumers, i.e. where should we get our meat?

[@swayzocrazo4398]

I was working with Smithfield and i quite cause the conditions were just deplorable very sickening to see what's going on in there

[@tarajoyce3598]

2022 Katie Porter co-sponsered legislation in the US House to address this very issue. Tell your congressman to pass it. Food is a National Security issue, if nothing else matters to you regarding this issue.

[@77.88.]

The same crap happened back in the 70's that is when I quit buying meat as I could no longer afford beef. Currently ask the 3 HEDGE Fund owners that buy and control the majority of CORPORATIONS as a politician once said Money Talks and B.S. Walks

[@janicesanchez8257]

This is RIDICULOUS! How do you buy local??? Cut out corporate!

[@phalabearden3645]

I subscribed just to say whatever is done in secret will b shouted from the rooftops!( the Bible)

[@SW6511B]

So we the U.S. import beef from Brazil? Or are we sending livestock to brazil for processing and then ship back to the U.S.?

[@GypsyoftheSun]

These corporations have a monopoly on this industry and if you know basic law, it is illegal to have a monopoly 🤷🏻‍♀️ Why are foreign companies allowed to own businesses or land in OUR country? Absolute insanity 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@philipmorphew6301]

22$ per pound for a tender steak.

[@Organicme1]

I can only eat clean food and the organic meat I can get has made eating meat daily unreal for me, even some of the high priced organic is not clean and causes me pain like regular meat.

[@jayurban8282]

Just to add a little to your very good video, I’m a 60 year old cattle feeder. I’ve been feeding cattle my whole life, I’m a small cattle feeder in Southwest Nebraska. I usually feed about 2000 cattle annually, my gross yearly income is between three and four million dollars. My losses are substantial, in fact with kids in college my wife and I qualify for and receive Medicare. I happened upon a google story listing the ten richest women in America, the woman who owns Cargill is worth 8.1 billion dollars. I feed roughly 20,000 people there yearly supply of beef, and am basically on welfare. What’s wrong with this picture?

[@rileymod6541]

Welcome to corporate America. Bribing officials in America is called lobbying. Keep voting for corporate Republicans and Democrats and it will never change.

[@johncooke9360]

I'm amazed at what we're letting happen. Hiring some merce,.naries could go a long way

[@jkgkjgkijk]

It's all going to hell in our lifetimes. Edward Dowd, former Black Rock exec predicts that by September the people will realize we're not in Kansas anymore and that hell is coming. The great Depression will be a footnote.

[@myceilauniverse9096]

Someone get this guy on joe Rogan.

[@miguelmcwilliams7015]

You forgot to tell us who sold them the animals??!! Ranchers created this monster ; the very second they stopped going to mom and pop butchers... now everyone is saying "if I can buy my food from somewhere else" it's simple support your local farmers and ranchers . Anyone remember what community was before corporate companies came along.

[@lilbob369]

What’s the possibility of cross contamination of chicken,beef,and pork?

[@hardrightturn7502]

@Lonesome Lands are you familiar with Rudy Stanko? He has been harping on this for years, he wrote a book about it all called "The Score"

[@kimbercoleman7089]

Keep getting the information and facts out there...