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Opinion: Breaking Big Meat’s monopoly isn’t for the faint of heart

By Dave Dickey, Investigate Midwest | March 2, 2022

President Joe Biden has declared war on Big Meat. Yup, Biden’s war. The president pinky swears new rules and a billion dollars in new funding will somehow end decades of what amounts to a meat monopoly in the beef, pork and chicken industries.

More foreign ownership of U.S. beef processors raises food safety concerns

By Christopher Walljasper/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | December 18, 2019

With Marfrig Global Foods' purchase of National Beef Packing Company, two of the four largest U.S. beef processors will be owned by Brazilian companies, which has some cattle ranchers worried.