How Tyson Captured All The Pork You Eat (And Made Billions)

It's amazing how many problems can be traced back to a billionaire. I'm starting to think billionaires don't have society's best interest at heart.

Tyson is the epitome of greed. I knew a lawyer that won a lawsuit in Tyson's favor. 50 million dollars. Tyson turned around and tried to sue the law firm that won them the judgement. The judge laughed them out of court.

I’m putting my proactive $$$’s towards the real farmers. Thanks for exposing this corporate scam.

How corruption destroyed literally everything in America...

Why has the pork industry allowed to pollute Ohio's lakes & rivers, and the state tax funds are the ones paying to clean it up?

"Efficiency" is just a term for throwing people out of work. In the '70's, we had enough efficiency in the US economy to support everybody at a decent quality of life. The gains since then have gone primarily to the owner class and things have actually declined, in real terms, for workers.

My aunt's from Iowa and several years ago she fought against factory hog farming and earned herself the name "The Pig Lady" and people mocked her relentlessly, well the factories won and she was proven correct. Tyson has ruined so much.

destroy land, pollute water, eliminate local farms, pay off govt.. way to go Tyson.

There should not be a monopoly on food

I can explain what's going on very simply. My father was the second in charge of the 11 western states for the government back in the 60's and 70's for meat and poultry. What was happening was that small meat producers could sell their local produced meats for cheaper than the large companies. That's due to the small farmer not having the same transportation costs as these bigger companies. Not to mention a higher quality of meats. These big companies went to Washington DC and got the government to do their dirty work for them by increasing the rules concerning the manufacture of meat products. All these new rules were very costly to incur and most any small farmer couldn't possibly afford them. Thus, they went out of business. Leaving no competition to the large companies. This is not unlike the large oil companies that also went to D.C. and got the EPA to come down on all the independent gas station owners with new costly burdens which resulted in them also going out of business. In the case of the station owners the EPA forced them to change out the gas tanks that held the fuel at the station. At about 500k a tank they couldn't afford to do it. This has been happening in all sectors of our economy for 50 plus years.

Im a chicken farmer and Tyson and Purdue ruined it for everyone.... Birds full of medicine and never see daylight in a cage they can't even turn around in !

Tyson closed a local processing plant. Left all their chicken farmers to deal with their mortgages to pay. The mortgages Tysons wanted them to take out….

Greed is not the desire for more, it's the desire for more at the expense of others.

Tyson is a monster they’ve run out so many small farmers out of grocery stores threatening the grocery store that if they didn’t get rid of them Tyson would pull their products they also control a huge portion of meat packing and meat processing

A friend of mine is a meat cutter for a chain grocery store. I built him a building so he can process our meat. Since we started we have been joined by other like minded people and from start to finish our pork ,beef and chicken costs us .43 cents a pound. 🎉

over a hundred countries refuse to import US pork because of safety and quality issues. let that sink in

There is everything wrong with this ultra concentration of business power. The societal bottom line is less about efficiency and profit...and more about the destruction of the way of life that sustained us for generations.

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We need more of this kind of journalism. Keep up the good work

I am a Cali transplant to Iowa since '97 and when I came here it was mostly small family farms and every small town had that wholesome feel. Now all of that is gone and dead, it has been replaced with an empty shell of industry instead of community.