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Zach Wahls: “You have four companies that control 85% of the meat packing…”

Featuring: Zach Wahls, Democratic | Iowa Senate, District 43

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Published | Video Starts at 15:07

What, realistically, can you do in the United States Senate to bring down any portion of our grocery bills and start with the exact Again, this is a place where the concentration that we are seeing is absolutely unacceptable. You have four companies that control 85% of the meat packing when it comes to beef. And earlier this year, I believe Representative Turek also introduced similar legislation about vertical integration. We can't allow these monopolies to not just have control within one industry. (15:07–15:13)

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