The tariff-free importation of 300,000 metric tons of potentially substandard beef crashed cattle markets. Trump’s makeup plans to placate ranchers are lacking in substance.
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Posted inPodcasts
Organized Money: How Trump Lost Cattle Ranchers
The business of raising and processing beef in America has been ground to dust in service of profit for publicly traded behemoths like Walmart.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Trump Declared Economic War on His Own People
The simultaneous economic sanctions on Iran and Canada will make everything you buy cost more—if we’re lucky.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Meat Industry’s Tireless Effort to Keep Live Pigs in Coffins
The Save Our Bacon Act, which would override hundreds of state food safety laws, has triggered bipartisan revulsion. But the pork industry wants it so they can keep confining pigs.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Meat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money
Agri Stats collected proprietary information from all meat producers and encouraged price increases for decades. After a Trump DOJ settlement, it’s allowed to stay in business.
Posted inWorking in America
The Escalating, Bloody Exploitation of Meat Workers Under Trump
Conditions in meatpacking plants are set to return to scenes from ‘The Jungle.’
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Chickens and the Eggs
Avian flu outbreaks are exacerbated by the consolidated structure of the poultry industry.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How Deb Fischer Delivered for Big Ag
An obscure fight over cattle prices could be one reason the Nebraska senator is in trouble in her re-election campaign.
Posted inWorking in America
How Tim Walz Saved Workers’ Lives and Limbs
The Democrats’ vice-presidential nominee has won extraordinary advances in worker safety in Minnesota.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Three Algorithms in a Room
A growing number of industries are using software to fix prices. Law enforcers are beginning to fight back.