What I want to talk about today, the consolidation in US Meatpacking has led to just four meat packers. Jbs, a Brazilian owned company, Cargill, Tyson Foods, and National Beef, another Brazilian company. Those four companies monopolize about 85% 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. (00:13–00:20)
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