There is a bottleneck in the nation's food supply chain. Specifically in the meatpacking operations of the country's "big four": Tyson Foods, National Beef, Cargill, and Brazilian giant JBS - the world's largest processor of beef and pork products. The logjam has been exacerbated by a slew of coronavirus outbreaks in Iowa meatpacking plants and
COVID-19 is Laying Bare How Big Ag is Taking America’s Small Farmers to Slaughter
As the door for greater consolidation across industries opens wider, entrenched transnational food interests are feeling the heat from American farmers and ranchers to curb their monopolistic dreams.