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Brooke Rollins: “Consolidation in US Meatpacking has led to just four meat…”

Featuring: Brooke Rollins, Republican | United States Secretary of Agriculture | National

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DOJ announces antitrust probe of major meatpackers over beef prices

Published | Video Starts at 08:02

So we are making big change to keep incentivizing the growth of our cattle herd and to get out of this current situation we're in. However, and this is the second part of what I want to talk the Consolidation in US Meatpacking has led to just four meat companies monopolizing about 85% of the U.S. processing market today. of the U.S. processing market today. But it hasn't always been that way. The rate of this four firm control has accelerated since the 1970s. (08:02–08:24)

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Asserts that four companies control 85% of the U.S. meat processing market.

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