Packers and Stockyards Act

Ninety Years On - Will the Feds Finally Break Up the Meat Monopoly?

Regina Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Vilsack, Packers and Stockyards Act, Farmers, Monopoly, Hogs, Antitrust, Conspiracy, Food, Cattle, Ranchers, Meat, Meat Industry, Food Monnopoly, Eric Holder, Food Industry, Green News
Regina Weiss

In 1919 the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported to President Woodrow Wilson on a months-long investigation that produced seven volumes of evide...

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Cowboys Versus Packers This Week -- And We're Not Talking Football

Mabel Dobbs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Western Organization of Resource Councils, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Packers and Stockyards Act, Ranching, Antitrust, Cattle, Usda, Meatpacking, Denver News
Mabel Dobbs

A tiny handful of giant meatpackers and processors have been underpaying and unfairly treating livestock producers for decades. These packers control the livestock markets.

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History Repeated

Mike Callicrate | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: P&S Act, Antitrust, Packers and Stockyards Act, Beef, Meat Packers, Gipsa, Callicrate, Food News
Mike Callicrate

Although The Jungle was published in 1906, we have no less of a Jungle today, and no less of a "Beef Trust,"from the way farmers and ranchers are denied a fair income, to the exploitation of workers, to our deplorable lack of food safety.

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