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.
@@williamwilson6499 I have read quite a few reports on this. Most of the Companies, granted are listed as individual companies, but they are owned by the same people. Koch Brothers, Kraft, Tyson, etc. Something like 30 or 40 people own like 80% of our food supply.
That’s easy. A long time ago a politician decided it would be a good idea to let corporations donate to individual candidates. Then the politicians all got bought out. Then SCOTUS fell under the money spell and decided that corporations are really just people, so stop complaining that your politicians aren’t passing any laws that benefit you. And here we are.
@@Mecknificent Was about to say, because if you had asked these people who should be in office it's probably Kim Reynolds because while she completely fucks them sideways, she probably also isn't pro choice or is big on guns. I really do sometimes have a hard time watching these videos because you have all these "poor me" people who look like the exact kind of person that didn't want regulation, safety nets, job training programs, etc. Now that they're feeling the effects of that, they want to say it's not right, but can't actually think about how to solve the problem because they've been culturally trained to hate every solution. So instead they just fucking complain most of the time. That complaining part being what I see all the fucking time from my conservative side of my family. Can't think of a solution to save their lives, but they sure can bitch and moan about it. When you suggest something you can quickly tell they don't really want to have to consider nuance or be forced to think critically. My friend talks about the small town he's from dying and wondering when it won't be on the map, and I said I hope it's as fast as possible. 95% of those people vote for people that will fuck them and me over, don't want to think about how to make things better, and advocate for losing their own homes and having to options, so I'm not sad when that's exactly what happens to them. I care less about these farmers (statistically) than I do about the actual prices of food and the poor conditions the pigs are being put into. The farms had choices and voted in these people who directly assisting the people that are doing this to them. I and the pigs didn't have a choice since we don't live in that state....
As an ex farmer I can tell you that there's a Big DIFFERENCE between land raised pork and building confinement pork. The taste is totally different plus texture and color. Dirt raised, open ranging, chickens and pork, beef are the best tasting meat you've eaten. PLUS not to mention all the 💩 that gets injected and fed into confinement animals that open air animals don't get nor need.
They didn't show it sufficiently in this short documentary but these animals are stressed out in an unnatural way due to overcrowding. Pigs just aren't meant for giant herds. Oh and SUNLIGHT!!! Pigs actually need natural sunlight, just like most day-active mammals. Ofc they're gonna taste weird and different. But people won't notice. An entire generation which never tasted something which wasn't processed or raised by a megacorp is currently at college. They won't care for small farmers, they won't care for Ohio and they'll think everything is fine with the way stuff tastes atm.
There are a lot of people who have never eaten anything but meat from a grocery store. If they found a farmer who pasture raises their animals & bought from them they likely wouldn't go back to grocery store meat. Pork in the grocery store is pale white color & tastes terrible. Pork I raise rotating on pasture grass looks similar to beef in color. Chicken & Turkey raised on grass has a sweet taste. Eggs from layer hens on pasture taste much better & the yokes are dark yellow to orange. Huge difference to factory farm raised animals. No growth hormones, no antibiotics unless a animal is sick & needs them, fresh air & sunshine, new clean pasture 1-2x per day. @Frai-ll3es
@@peter5.056How? They’ve made sure the only way we can be fed and housed (if we can even manage that anymore) is to give them our money. Surviving without enriching a billionaire somewhere is near-impossible; completely impossible, if you get sick or hurt and want to live! 😑
Terry Reed ex CIA wrote a book years ago telling how a 100 million dollars a month in drugs back in the 80s were being flown into Mena Arkansas. I wonder what they did with all that money 🤔
Then try "The Arrowhead Ranch" Birch Tree Mo for all your pork needs. "Happy pigs make good BBQ." They're raised in the forrest free, like God intended.
Greetings, dear farmers. I see from the comments that you have very big difficulties with the land. I am from Siberia and I have a hobby of breeding horses. I have a lot of land for grazing and making hay. There are tractors and everything necessary for making hay. If any of you really want to start breeding beef cattle, then I can offer you this breeding here in Siberia on partnership terms. Our meat market is experiencing an acute shortage of meat, so this niche can be said to be empty and without competition. On my land areas You can increase the number of broodstock to 3000. Breeds such as Hereford, Galloway, and Angus are suitable for our climate. If you're interested, I'm looking forward to hearing from you. Write to me in the comments
When they stop believing in all that libertarian BS and stop thinking that a free market left to its devices with no oversight or regulations will always ALWAYS lead to monopolies.
What corruption? Farmers sold their land to Tyson or other entity and/or agree to terms with a much larger company. All of this was done voluntarily and without coercion. I'm open to being wrong about that, so I welcome evidence to the contrary. Everyone blames corruption or corporate greed while ignoring the 'greed' (I truly despise that word) of the small farms who willingly sold out. We have only ourselves to blame, but it's easier to point fingers at others than it is to take responsibility and do what one can to remedy/alleviate the problems.
@@masonieorzechowe7836 Corporatism and lobbyists. I was incorrect earlier, there was coercion of a sort involved. More like lobbyist/corporate led extermination of small farms by imposing new laws/restrictions that only the larger farms could easily afford to comply with. Honestly, I'm still researching this but it was not as simple as I earlier thought. The 'free market' was once again corrupted by corporations, their lobbyist dogs, and corrupt lawmakers. Seems like more or less the same thing that cattle ranchers face(d). And independent gas stations. And I'm sure many others.
"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.
Sadly, the wealthy ALWAYS win. Always. No exceptions. There is almost nothing anyone can do about it... ... unless they're RICH. 💪😎✌️ If you're loaded, you can put up a fight. But if not, brother, you are goin' DOWN, suckah! 😂 You have no chance. #copium
It used to be impossible for them to monopolize like this we are supposed to be we are supposed to be independent sovereign states United under the Constitution this is not possible anymore with federal taxes the federal government steals our productivity in the form of federal taxes and then bribes the state to get that money back in the form of a Federal grant as long as they change their laws and regulations and if they don't they'll steal that money anyways, States used to have laws that would protect their businesses those laws have all been slowly stripped with federal grants. The civil war was never about ending slavery it was about expanding the federal government and slowly stealing all sovereignty from separate states
True to an extent. However, I'd argue that one party bear more responsibility for the results were seeing in farming, and being part of the greed structure. IE: Tyson gave lots of money out in 2023. Most of it to individuals or groups that have supported policy that hurts local farmers but helps corporate farms, while simultaneously fighting policy that punish corporate farms for their environmental impact. Once again, these people and groups are on both sides of the aisle.... but lean heavily towards one specific side.
@@lorenzohaynes3886 and now it's become so obvious that it is extremely difficult and painful to take the words of those who speak of good intent for all seriously. This is a crucial pivitol point in the jargon of political angle shooting...it tests our souls to ask how much of this insidious horse shit we will allow...as we are being buried alive with it from many places and we have to take a minute and breathe ( if the air is on our side ) , center our thoughts for a moment...and ask ourselves if we wouldn't be happier if our government took care of us more....get us as a nation back on track...?
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.
Yiu have a compelling point. Just short of one thing. ….. Hit the space bar every now and then. Write as you would be speaking with someone, and wanted their attention.
Grew up on a farm. But have business in the restaurant industry. It's the same thing. Consolidation of power. It's sad and funny at the same time. Consumers think they are sticking it to the big corps by demanding XYZ to apply to industry. But the smaller companies are the least capable to adjust. All that is left is then the big players. We do this to ourselves
A small business owner i worked for was dreaming of attempting a similar stunt in education, he wanted to sell to the state as "think of the children!", but in reality he just wanted to raise the cost of competing with his pioneer business
I delivered fuel and oil to a Tyson Plant. I seen how they treat their employees. They also are required to use wear transparent/clear plastic purses, handbags, and backpacks. I couldn’t imagine times are bad enough you would have to steal a chicken? They must pay minimum wage. The plant was disgusting. Inside and out it was just appalling. I understand processing makes a lot of waste and messes but cleaning is still necessary. Clearing an area is not cleaning. To be honest the rendering plant for dog food is cleaner.
this isn't boycotting anymore. its just "unaffordable". were not forming marches or holding rallys to walk into tyson corporate. LOL. we can't even afford that. corporations fail to realize this. company will cut jobs to offset the loss and claim that they "made" money. they keep cutting jobs until there are no more employees. what do they cut next? LOL.
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.
The corporate bottom line is still about efficiency and profit. This profit just happens to also involve destroying the way of life that has sustained most people for generations.
I don't eat any meat and I'm leaner and more energetic than ever. I also don't have the guilt of contributing to unnecessary animal suffering and slaughter.
How many of those are Muslim countries, though? I know you said "safety and quality issues", but it sounds like something they'd say to avoid stating their real reason.
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
Rich gotta rich, poor gotta serve, suffer, and *submit*. 💪😎✌️ If you ain't rich, then you ain't sheet. That's just how mankind has arranged itself over thousands of years. Ain't ne'er gonna change. #copium
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.
@@WhiteyMcPrivileged Their "food" is the part of the reason so many are sick. They pump chickens and hogs with NASTY chemicals. No thanks. My chickens have no shots, are outside during the day and produce amazing yolks. Guess I'll have to start raising hogs next.
Me and my son are trying to raise farrow to finish pigs in Western Illinois and our struggles trying to keep it a family farm. Enjoyed your video on youtube.
I'm not from the US or even a farmer, I'm a railway electrician from the UK, but this makes my blood boil. Farmers are getting treated like 💩 all over the world. One of my coworkers is a farmer. He used to be a full-time farmer, but him and his brother now have to work rail and construction alternatively so they can keep the family farm going. These people are some of the hardest working salt of the earth people around, and they are constantly getting screwed every which way. Let's all start supporting our local producers by boycotting these corporate pieces of 💩. Let's make it an international movement 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸.
This has been a concerted effort in all first world countries to consolidate ownership of food production to a couple owners. This allows the people in charge (not the UN or any government) to control food production and prices. Expect an event or situation to cut off all or some food production via a false event to make the public panic and either to cause rioting in the streets or to make the public accept some form of control that the people would normally resist. They can turn off our fuel, water and electricity as well. Here in the US we’ve had a lot of meat processing plants burning down or destroyed by ‘storms” or other catastrophe and they don’t replace these plants. They don’t talk about this in the media aside from local media outlets that cover the event so most Americans are unaware of how fragile our food chain actually is. And add in millions of illegal immigrants that also rely on our food supply and it doesn’t take much to get people to freak out.
Thank you! Agreed! Local meat (not vaccinated!) or don’t eat meat! Please tell your coworkers “thank you for your service to the community.” I buy a portion of a grass fed cow direct from the slaughterhouse. Not everyone can do that but you CAN boycott Tyson. #readlabels
Not just pigs. I had a dairy 40 years ago. The dairies today are paid within $2 of what I got for 100 lbs of milk 40 years ago. Yet the milk, cheese, ice cream is much more expensive in the store than it was 40 years.
2024 Presidential Election results for IOWA: 🢂 55.7% Trump 42.5% Harris You wanted TRUMP - the DeRegulation President You DONT WANT THE EPA? REGULATIONS? You Wanted Conveyor farms... you Wanted Pig Shit in your lakes and rivers you wanted Pig Shit in your drinking waters... NOW SHUT UP AND EAT IT!!!! I hope TYSON and the other TWO MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF FARMS IN IOWA and PIG SHIT FLOWS DOWN THE STREETS AND ROADS OF IOWA!!!
Dairies are getting $1.80 per gallon for milk and I can buy a gallon at Costco for $2.00 gallon. That doesn't sound unreasonable at all. Matter of fact, how do the retailers, wholesalers, milk plants, truck drivers, etc. make any money at all? Oh sure, the milk plants make a little on cheese and butter but not much.
@@pointreyes4272 Where I am, Tillamook, milk is about $15.00/100 pounds. Raw milk weighs 8.6 pounds.100/8.6 = 11.6 gallons. $15/11.6 = $1.30 a gallon. And Costco milk is after the cream and most of the butterfat has been removed. So a third or more of the value of that milk has been removed and the processors make the money.
people need to wake up and support good quality meat. that mass production meat is just less tastefull.... you can see in old grandmother recipe that some spices were never needed because the pork itself had more taste
Small, family farms protect biodiversity … corporate farms destroy biodiversity … that should be the impetus for the government to support sustainable farming… but greed makes them support corporate farming !!
politicians are not going to listen to farmers any more than individuals. Their door is open to lobbiyists of big business/farms. eddit; the gvmt gives $ to some farm owners. One farm had 52 owners, including city dwellers. Unfair IMO, but the pgm exists. Loohole / oversight / shrewd?
@cliffontheroad your right. But, his biggest stance is getting Americans healthy again and keeping corps out of it. Small family farms does both. It would be hard, but at least he truly wants it.
I WORKED FOR TYSON FOODS IN THE OZARKS... AND LET ME TELL YOU, I NEVER EAT FOOD FROM TYSON. SOME OF THE HOGS THAT WE SENT OUT TO SLAUGHTER WERE TESTABLE. SO SKINNY THAT THEY COULD HARDLY STAND ON THEIR OWN. SOME HAD TUMORS SO BIG THAT THEY DRAGGED THE GROUND. I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO EAT PORK SINCE BEFORE I LEFT THE COMPANY.
I worked at a small local slaughter to butcher in high school and report that comes out of. The pork from there is a different food from industrial pork.
Little thought experiment for you, how many pigs do you think get mistreated and slaughtered by mega corporations in say, Israel, or Egypt? And why might that be?
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 !
@@jjradVo so you are vegan ? Well since you know so much about the animal side maybe you should do some research on how every single animal is exterminated for your fields of tofu and herbicide loaded micro greens
@@kylebozell2891 the majority of soybeans and crops are grown to feed the animals you eat. I have no control over poor farming practices but I do have control over choosing not to deliberately abuse and kill animals to eat. Why can't you answer my question ?
So true; but the Globalist & Philanthropists included in the monopolies fail to realize when people, especially middle class are eliminated; the monopolies will collapse with nothing in their possession.
I'm lucky to live around a bunch of family farms. One sells heirloom pork, and the chops they sell taste incredible. Completely different flavor than what you'd buy at a grocery store.
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.
Same. I moved from SFO to VA and then NC. 50% of the population lived on small family farms when I moved here in 1990. There’s still a large rural population, but now they mostly work in processing plants or in service industries or not at all. The farms are owned by the megacorps, or they’re sold to developers.
I am a farmer. I grew Up on a farm. It was a way of life for me and my family. It Was tough but I would not have it any other way and I think it is very wrong to monopolize agriculture and Rob people of their livelihood and way of living.
2024 Presidential Election results for IOWA: 🢂 55.7% Trump 42.5% Harris You wanted TRUMP - the DeRegulation President You DONT WANT THE EPA? REGULATIONS? You Wanted Conveyor farms... you Wanted Pig Shit in your lakes and rivers you wanted Pig Shit in your drinking waters... NOW SHUT UP AND EAT IT!!!! I hope TYSON and the other TWO MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF FARMS IN IOWA and PIG SHIT FLOWS DOWN THE STREETS AND ROADS OF IOWA!!!
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….
@@CharlesBridges-b9iI live 15 minutes away from Tysons corporate. Idk Tysons is still a lot better than Walmart right up the road. Personally I really like Simmons good people and good food.
@@danielturner9832these companies are being bought up by china etc these billionaires who own American corporations and companies are not gonna do things for the American worker or the communities they are in
this is how corporations sell contaminated food in America, bribe officials, and never ever see any justice for the victims nor punishment for the crimes committed. there doesnt go a day where you dont hear about recalls from listeria outbreaks or e. coli or salmonella. most of what you eat has half the nutritional value it used to have half a century ago. ruclips.net/video/Ax0SIbxgqDw/видео.html
Bring the old way of farming back , they treated the animals well. Just because these animals are for food they should NOT be treated badly. Animals should not be locked up in building all their lives, there life is short enough so why not let the enjoy what time the have. Stop this abuse on these poor animals. Bring family farms back ❤
It’s time for the poor hardworking Americans to unite together against corporate farmers. We cannot let them control everything and destroy our great country.
You are about to vote Trump back in power (let's face it, the wannabe black girl that isn't a black girl but is in fact a Nepo baby from slave owners Harris stands no chance) Guess who Trump will favor when making laws?
It has already happened long ago while non farming people weren't paying attention. Family farmers have been talking about this for decades & no one was listening. It's not only livestock. It is vegetables, fruit, salad greens, literally everything we eat. People need to change who they are buying their meat, veges, fruit & etc from. Find family farms & buy from them whenever possible. More nutrient dense, no hormone implants, no antibiotics unless needed for a specific infection, raised on the land on pasture where they belong.
I live in a town near Austin that is essentially a glorified subdivision. What you have said about agriculture similarly applies to real estate. In and around Austin land is strip mined for real estate. Keep in mind that corporations are run by likely narcissistic people
And Narcissists are a creation of broken homes. Every social issue goes back to the breakup of the family and people wanting to play god… You never want weak losers in charge of running a company because they are easily beholden to money greed etc - not - doing what is right They love to hide behind “bro we’re just building shareholder value maaaan”
real estate is problem of austins(and the rest of the US) shit zoning laws. abolish zoning laws and youll get actual urbanization instead of the never ending urban sprawl
The corporate offices don't pay their bills on time either! Back in the '90's I worked in a corporate office for a large home/office supply chain. I did Accounts Receivable-Corporate Collections. Tyson was a main customer!! Their outstanding debt was in the millions BEFORE I even arrived at that company. They pass the buck alot. Another company I worked at also had issues with Tyson's bill paying (or lack of). Them and Foster Farms. Those two never pay bills on time.
I used to sell chemicals to the wastewater plants that Tyson operates at their chicken processing plants, I ran into this issue all the time. These companies have billions and yet will push everything out for a $3500 invoice until my company is threatening to pull my commission unless it is paid.
This is a common practice by many (maybe most) large corporations. It is not unusual for their accounting depts. to routinely pay bills at 90 days past due.
No, we need to pass a constitutional amendment restricting one person from having more then term in political office for their lifetime and restricting bureaucrats to 5 to 10 years of working for the government per life. Military excluded. And no retirement for government workers or politicians. And you cannot work for governments or run for office once you hit the age of 55
That’s true. They drive out to the sites and stay there recording, interviewing and researching. All that work and the average person still doesn’t do anything about their exposures. Pitiful.
Cattle farmer here - From Iowa. Might wanna do a deep dive on how the FDA was started and how little subsidies were given to small farmers during C-19’er. (hint: look at a certain president from out past) Also if you were looking for a reason why beef has doubled in price in the last 5 years I can provide insight on that as well.
I know smaller scale cattle ranchers & none of them received any government hand outs of money in 2020. However, it was the corporate dirt farmers who received most of that money to bail them out in 2019, 2020 due to tarrifs increasing cost of imported seed, fertilizer & imputs by 300%. Livestock producers ate the cost of feed cost that doubled, tripled & auction prices for 500 lb to 800 lb calves didn't increase & left them barely breaking even or at a loss. That is why the smaller family ranches have gone to keeping their calves, raise & finish them & are selling direct to consumer meat sales. It eliminates the middle men who make all the money & puts it in the ranchers pockets where it belongs.
The meat industry in America is absolutely revolting.... I may not be a vegetarian but my meat consumption has dropped to the local butcher shop and very little consumption. I really wish I didn't know about it
Completely agree. I still consume some packaged meat, but I eat a tiny fraction of what I did before. The meat industry demands so much human and animal suffering. It's just not worth it. Especially for meat from large animals (eg. cows, pigs). I try to eat that sort of meat as rarely as possible and just supplement for my vitamin and protein needs.
@@greygryphon6881 I believe for the most part, animals were eaten in religious sacrificial contexts. That was the norm. Now people eat them regardless and in whatever way without taking thought. An animal that was sacrificed was supposed to be treated right and die humanely for it to be a victim “that absorbed sins.” It died on the behalf of someone else - that sort of thinking
I had a brother who worked for one of those producers and was injured when a side of beef fell on him and he spent the rest of his short life on disability addicted to pain killers which finally took his life. There is a human cost!
I have met Don Tyson at a Kansas Livestock Association annual meeting. We as ranchers were concerned about Tyson doing this to the cattle industry. I grew up in Iowa its sad what happened to hog farming . Sadly I see the cattle ranchers going down the same road.
It’s up to the consumers to advocate. The current landscape basically is pitting consumers against farmers. I’ll tell you right now. People are asking me where they can get raw milk and I will not tell them where I get my raw milk from because I’m protecting the farmers, I know. Consumers have put a bad taste in Farmer’s mouth in terms of dealing with them direct. Make no mistake, farmers will always make sure they get good food for themselves and their families, but it’s the nation that’s going to suffer with poor health, if consumers won’t protect, farmers with action.
@@peachykeen7634 Consumers? Advocating? Some will. Most don't gaf b/c they don't realize what is at stake. This is not just about diet at this point. This sort of outcome pitting consumers against farmers will absolutely play into the hands of mega-corporations seeking to control all facets of daily human life. Foment distrust, profit. Control the only source of food and you control how people live... and decide when people don't.
I buy all my pork from "The Arrowhead Ranch" Located in Birch Tree Mo. They raise 'em in start to finish in the forrest, free to graze as they wish and fed grain daily. Their motto is "Happy pigs make good BBQ." So, forget the rest support the best. The Arrowhead Ranch.
@@matthewconnor5483 how do you murder the pigs ? Do your little bacon eaters watch you taking their life or do you drop them off at the slaughter house and let someone else kill them ?
The word efficiency is the money word for all business. I've worked for a large well known Japanese corporation. In the factories, they literally count the number of steps between work stations. They will reconfigure the work stations to minimize the steps between them to maximize the actual production processes. They continuously do time studies of each operation to look for ways to cut production time. And of course if you can reduce the number of employees through efficiency improvements, that's all the better for big corporate profits. A lot of this started with Henry Ford who came up with the modern production assembly line.
@07wrxtr1 God?! 😂🤦🏽♂️ God=Abuse, corruption and excuses for hate and violence. You keep that superstition/religion garbage to yourself. (Snort! Spit!).
The same thing happened in the UK. Corporations own it all. They squeeze the farmers at one end and the consumer at the other. If pollution standards were enforced the lobbyists would go to the politicians to get welfare while the ordinary taxpayer foots the bill and struggles to get by.
You are underselling how bad this is in some areas. I am an apprentice butcher in a small town. All of the chicken everybody in this town eats be it fresh, frozen, or already cooked in the deli it all comes from Tyson.
This is heartbreaking. Hog farmers are so important. It takes a special kind of care to raise them properly. Pigs are smart. This is cruel to everyone involved, especially so the pigs. Super grateful I can get locally produced, small farm meats but that's not the norm anymore...
When sharecropping was practiced in the south, people in Iowa thought it was someone else's problem. It has caught up with them; but they do not even recognize it for what it is. Imbalance of economic power between two "consenting" business partners is a straight road to dependency and serfdom.
My Grandpa Raised pigs the same way. Old Dutch Huts and open grazing, also sold to Nieman Ranch. Some of the best pork you’ll ever have. He had a poster and a short bio about him and his farm hanging in most Chipotles for years. I can’t remember now the last time I saw an old hog lot on a farm. Sadly that way of life is long gone.
We have factory pig farms all over NC. Some them have been fined due to waste water leaching into water ways and causing ammonia gas in the local community.
I try to buy as much of my meat & eggs from local farmers as I can. Sadly, it's getting harder and harder to find anything within a reasonable driving distance these days. I suspect that's exactly what the food industry wants.
I quit buying pork when the CAFOs started, heard too much about them. Wouldn't buy pork until local raised pork became available at our farmers mkt. That was 15 or 20 years.
It's a stark reminder of how economic shifts can devastate local communities. Small family farms disappearing while profits soar for a select few conglomerates raises serious questions about sustainability and fairness in agriculture.
If you're outraged by this, ask yourself. "Why do I keep giving them my money?" These companies are nothing without a willing consumer to fund their practices.
What's even worse.... they are just part of another bigger umbrella. Last product map I saw had some like 5 or 6 umbrellas with all the things. Its all a lie.
the short answer is "incentives". we don't want to see our fellow workers destitute because we decided to boycott over the outrageous behavior of their bosses. the slightly longer answer is "marketing". there's a reason small businesses are dying and it's not because capitalists love competition... it's literally the opposite. you have it backwards. it's as if you think the owners of commercial buildings only make money by collecting rents from businesses that want to use the office space.
long story short, real capitalists do not get into business to "make money"; they get into business to employ the massive wealth they already have to secure a dominant position in an industry and use it the way ordinary people use retirement/pension accounts... or at least the way ordinary people used to use those accounts. if you're getting into business to make money you don't yet have, then you've already lost to the monopolists. remember: workers can't own and owners don't work.
I've looked around on Google maps at some of these areas - I started seeing a recurring, very common, type of property - multiple Large barns in rows of about 3-4 with a small pond nearby that appeared to be bright green. These types of properties are dotted all around Iowa and other states in that region. The ponds I believe are collection ponds for all the urine/waste that comes out of these buildings.
Im from Arkansas i remember doing a report on Tyson in school in the 90s (there were only or mostly chicken then) they've been shady forever man. Ive raised pigs from the 80s to like 2013 14 and i stopped eating pork in 2005. If you're able to homestead/farm please do it. A few chickens, ducks, geese, guineas, hogs, goats etc and a pond for fish/waterfoul will save you lots of money and you'll be much healthier 💯🫡
Tyson will get exclusive contracts with hundreds of farmers and then shut them down and leave town. They also like to shut down plants for no good reason except to reopen a plant to hire much cheaper labor.....pathetic...
Storm Lake, Iowa. A beautiful town that's bankrolled by Tyson. And the native townsfolk were displaced almost entirely by immigrants they pay close to minimum wage.
We don’t even buy meat at the grocery stores anymore. Butcher Box only sources from independent farmers (free/open range, no antibiotics, no growth hormones etc). They process their own meats and deliver to our door as often as we want. It tastes so much better, I’ll never go back.
@@jeffb321 just fyi, it’s a subscription and we set the dates as well as size of order. We are a fam of 4, two teenagers. Our order is usually every three months for $150-200. I think it’s cheaper than Costco.
@@jeffb321 Most people in the US have a butcher within a reasonable driving distance at least for now until the topic of this video is fully implemented. Buying directly from a butcher sources healthier local raised meat and is only slightly more expensive than buying from a grocery store. Anyone not living in a tiny NYC apartment could likely figure out a way to have a deep freezer full of locally sourced meat for less than they spent on their last smart phone or less than they spend buying things they don't need over the course of a month or 2 on amazon.
Fun bonus, after the Kim Reaper and her goons weaseled their way into re-opening the Tysons plants and such early in the plague some of the Tysons management were running literal deadpools.
I made the decision over a year ago to no longer by anything from tyson foods and Wal-Mart because of what they have done to the small farmers in America. Now I raise most of my own food and me and my family are a better for ir. People need to support local farmers!
Smithfield is owned by the Chinese government. Smithfield also owns brands like Hormel, Ekrich, Farmland, Kretshmar, Cooks, Nathans, Armour, and many more brands.
True & Horrible! Such a shame that sleeping sheep fail to realize that Everything from China is Chronic Poison. How much of that poison is the intention of CCP to complete their quest-to win the war without a shot fired?
The collapse of the family farm and consolidation of large corporate industrial farms is the downfall of our food supply. We have to bring back the family farms.
Why are we not allowed to talk about how the employment of illegal/undocumented immigrant labor is a fundamental component of the beef/chicken/pork industry? Tyson Foods would never have been able to do this without being a primary employer of illegal/undocumented immigrants. Being politically correct does not mask this issue. Right now, go to the pork raising houses that were featured in this video, and you will witness most of the hard labor being performed by illegal/undocumented immigrants, but somehow, this is never shown. Why?
I can't even imagine what the meat packing plants filled with illegals has done to Iowa's demographic balance. I won't even go back there because I'm afraid of what I'd see.
The value graphed at 0:50 of $11 million on Iowa's 23.8 million hogs has to be a mistake. That's only 46 cents per hog. The chart should be billions of dollars, not millions.
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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.
You think Tyson is bad. ADM is worse and has been around long before Tysons.
You can sue everyone for everything without consequences. Our legal system is disgusting.
@@matthorrocks6517Would you like it better if there’s consequences for suing someone? Seems like this can be abused too.
@@phoenix5054 people make it their way of life. No one should be looking to take everything from someone else just because it's legal.
What was the court case?
There should not be a monopoly on food
Sadly it is. Only a handful of people controls 80% of our food supply.
We should not sell out to other countries
No one has a monopoly on food.
@@BennettKunertCould you cite your sources for that claim?
@@williamwilson6499 I have read quite a few reports on this. Most of the Companies, granted are listed as individual companies, but they are owned by the same people. Koch Brothers, Kraft, Tyson, etc. Something like 30 or 40 people own like 80% of our food supply.
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?
Capitalism seems to always need Socialism to bail it out.
That’s easy. A long time ago a politician decided it would be a good idea to let corporations donate to individual candidates.
Then the politicians all got bought out.
Then SCOTUS fell under the money spell and decided that corporations are really just people, so stop complaining that your politicians aren’t passing any laws that benefit you.
And here we are.
They vote for the reps that allow this
@@Mecknificent Was about to say, because if you had asked these people who should be in office it's probably Kim Reynolds because while she completely fucks them sideways, she probably also isn't pro choice or is big on guns.
I really do sometimes have a hard time watching these videos because you have all these "poor me" people who look like the exact kind of person that didn't want regulation, safety nets, job training programs, etc. Now that they're feeling the effects of that, they want to say it's not right, but can't actually think about how to solve the problem because they've been culturally trained to hate every solution. So instead they just fucking complain most of the time.
That complaining part being what I see all the fucking time from my conservative side of my family. Can't think of a solution to save their lives, but they sure can bitch and moan about it. When you suggest something you can quickly tell they don't really want to have to consider nuance or be forced to think critically. My friend talks about the small town he's from dying and wondering when it won't be on the map, and I said I hope it's as fast as possible. 95% of those people vote for people that will fuck them and me over, don't want to think about how to make things better, and advocate for losing their own homes and having to options, so I'm not sad when that's exactly what happens to them.
I care less about these farmers (statistically) than I do about the actual prices of food and the poor conditions the pigs are being put into. The farms had choices and voted in these people who directly assisting the people that are doing this to them. I and the pigs didn't have a choice since we don't live in that state....
Why? Money in politics.
As an ex farmer I can tell you that there's a Big DIFFERENCE between land raised pork and building confinement pork.
The taste is totally different plus texture and color. Dirt raised, open ranging, chickens and pork, beef are the best tasting meat you've eaten. PLUS not to mention all the 💩 that gets injected and fed into confinement animals that open air animals don't get nor need.
Exactly.
They didn't show it sufficiently in this short documentary but these animals are stressed out in an unnatural way due to overcrowding. Pigs just aren't meant for giant herds.
Oh and SUNLIGHT!!! Pigs actually need natural sunlight, just like most day-active mammals. Ofc they're gonna taste weird and different.
But people won't notice. An entire generation which never tasted something which wasn't processed or raised by a megacorp is currently at college. They won't care for small farmers, they won't care for Ohio and they'll think everything is fine with the way stuff tastes atm.
There are a lot of people who have never eaten anything but meat from a grocery store. If they found a farmer who pasture raises their animals & bought from them they likely wouldn't go back to grocery store meat. Pork in the grocery store is pale white color & tastes terrible. Pork I raise rotating on pasture grass looks similar to beef in color. Chicken & Turkey raised on grass has a sweet taste. Eggs from layer hens on pasture taste much better & the yokes are dark yellow to orange. Huge difference to factory farm raised animals. No growth hormones, no antibiotics unless a animal is sick & needs them, fresh air & sunshine, new clean pasture 1-2x per day. @Frai-ll3es
So what you’re saying is it’s the farmers fault?
So true I loved the taste of the eggs and my outdoor dual purpose chickens.
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.
Best thing you can do, is quit giving them your money!
you just started thinking that?
every billionaire is a policy failure. Their newsbots tell everyone socialism is the boogeyman, meanwhile the vampires are winning.
@@peter5.056How? They’ve made sure the only way we can be fed and housed (if we can even manage that anymore) is to give them our money. Surviving without enriching a billionaire somewhere is near-impossible; completely impossible, if you get sick or hurt and want to live! 😑
@@misspat7555 buy local
destroy land, pollute water, eliminate local farms, pay off govt.. way to go Tyson.
You forgot two things - donate money to a certain political party, then after it all craps out - get a government bailout.
Why should a small farmer make more than an engineer. It's ridiculous
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Terry Reed ex CIA wrote a book years ago telling how a 100 million dollars a month in drugs back in the 80s were being flown into Mena Arkansas. I wonder what they did with all that money 🤔
We desperately need the separation of Corporations and State. Only then can we have a true free market that plays by the rules and regulations.
I’m putting my proactive $$$’s towards the real farmers. Thanks for exposing this corporate scam.
Then try "The Arrowhead Ranch" Birch Tree Mo for all your pork needs. "Happy pigs make good BBQ." They're raised in the forrest free, like God intended.
Greetings, dear farmers. I see from the comments that you have very big difficulties with the land. I am from Siberia and I have a hobby of breeding horses. I have a lot of land for grazing and making hay. There are tractors and everything necessary for making hay. If any of you really want to start breeding beef cattle, then I can offer you this breeding here in Siberia on partnership terms. Our meat market is experiencing an acute shortage of meat, so this niche can be said to be empty and without competition. On my land areas You can increase the number of broodstock to 3000. Breeds such as Hereford, Galloway, and Angus are suitable for our climate. If you're interested, I'm looking forward to hearing from you. Write to me in the comments
@@JohnSmith-uv4ox how are they murdered like god intended ?
@OKFrax-ys2op I'd love to...but they charge more than the greedy companies.
@@randyeilers4061 How can I contact you personally?
When will America learn its lost control of independent living style to a few "above the law" CEOs.
When they stop believing in all that libertarian BS and stop thinking that a free market left to its devices with no oversight or regulations will always ALWAYS lead to monopolies.
How corruption destroyed literally everything in America...
What corruption? Farmers sold their land to Tyson or other entity and/or agree to terms with a much larger company. All of this was done voluntarily and without coercion. I'm open to being wrong about that, so I welcome evidence to the contrary. Everyone blames corruption or corporate greed while ignoring the 'greed' (I truly despise that word) of the small farms who willingly sold out. We have only ourselves to blame, but it's easier to point fingers at others than it is to take responsibility and do what one can to remedy/alleviate the problems.
Created by Globalist & Philanthropist making the government program the people.
@@j.joseph5353 most of the inflation is in the stock market
@@j.joseph5353 So it is fault of the free market and capitalism.
@@masonieorzechowe7836 Corporatism and lobbyists. I was incorrect earlier, there was coercion of a sort involved. More like lobbyist/corporate led extermination of small farms by imposing new laws/restrictions that only the larger farms could easily afford to comply with. Honestly, I'm still researching this but it was not as simple as I earlier thought. The 'free market' was once again corrupted by corporations, their lobbyist dogs, and corrupt lawmakers. Seems like more or less the same thing that cattle ranchers face(d). And independent gas stations. And I'm sure many others.
"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.
Yeah, but it's also like the transition from buggy production to car production. Things change, jobs change. Sometimes for the better.
@theoriginalbmt nice gaslighting there
@@TheoriginalBMTIt’s objectively worse.
Sadly, the wealthy ALWAYS win. Always. No exceptions. There is almost nothing anyone can do about it...
... unless they're RICH. 💪😎✌️ If you're loaded, you can put up a fight. But if not, brother, you are goin' DOWN, suckah! 😂 You have no chance. #copium
Capitalism is what got us there before and how it got us here today…it is how it is unfortunately
Are any other hardworking Americans sick and tired of every industry in America being monopolized?
Corporate America is the dark side of capitalism. That's why we have monopoly laws, but someone is going to find a way around it.
Nobody is doing anything about it.
Too busy being brainwashed
Stop voting for the party that wants government hands off corporations *cough* republicans
I am. Bring back independent small businesses and farmers. We deserve better
It used to be impossible for them to monopolize like this we are supposed to be we are supposed to be independent sovereign states United under the Constitution this is not possible anymore with federal taxes the federal government steals our productivity in the form of federal taxes and then bribes the state to get that money back in the form of a Federal grant as long as they change their laws and regulations and if they don't they'll steal that money anyways, States used to have laws that would protect their businesses those laws have all been slowly stripped with federal grants. The civil war was never about ending slavery it was about expanding the federal government and slowly stealing all sovereignty from separate states
I keep saying it's not about political parties. It's about greed.
When we vote its just for a figurehead who is being dictated to.
True to an extent. However, I'd argue that one party bear more responsibility for the results were seeing in farming, and being part of the greed structure. IE: Tyson gave lots of money out in 2023. Most of it to individuals or groups that have supported policy that hurts local farmers but helps corporate farms, while simultaneously fighting policy that punish corporate farms for their environmental impact. Once again, these people and groups are on both sides of the aisle.... but lean heavily towards one specific side.
Or how about SMITHFIELD PIG FARMS BELONGING TO COMMUNIST CHINA, NOT COMMUNIST DEMOCRATS!
And you are right
@@lorenzohaynes3886 and now it's become so obvious that it is extremely difficult and painful to take the words of those who speak of good intent for all seriously.
This is a crucial pivitol point in the jargon of political angle shooting...it tests our souls to ask how much of this insidious horse shit we will allow...as we are being buried alive with it from many places and we have to take a minute and breathe ( if the air is on our side ) , center our thoughts for a moment...and ask ourselves if we wouldn't be happier if our government took care of us more....get us as a nation back on track...?
Millions of people are boycotting Tyson but most of us dont know how many brands are under Tyson
just stop buying pork.
the price is too high and quality is too low.
I can go the rest of my life without eating pork.
@brusso456 I hate eating pork bit I eat a lot of poultry but my family won't give up pork
Joe,you don't have to eat animals, it is a choice to abuse and kill innocent animals or not.
@jjradV a vegan diet, kills more animals per meal than a carnivore diet please have some consideration
Plus most fast food chicken nuggets are all Tyson.
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.
I have been watching this happen to my beloved country.
Yiu have a compelling point.
Just short of one thing. …..
Hit the space bar every now and then.
Write as you would be speaking with someone, and wanted their attention.
Grew up on a farm. But have business in the restaurant industry. It's the same thing. Consolidation of power. It's sad and funny at the same time. Consumers think they are sticking it to the big corps by demanding XYZ to apply to industry. But the smaller companies are the least capable to adjust. All that is left is then the big players. We do this to ourselves
A small business owner i worked for was dreaming of attempting a similar stunt in education, he wanted to sell to the state as "think of the children!", but in reality he just wanted to raise the cost of competing with his pioneer business
I have news for you your statement is true for all forms of farming.
Greed is not the desire for more, it's the desire for more at the expense of others.
so per this video and your definition, the Tyson family is not greedy. agreed.
And the control of the supply, thereby controlling power.
Tyson foods should be broken up by the federal government.
I call that gluttony to distinguish it.
Such as billionaires
I delivered fuel and oil to a Tyson Plant. I seen how they treat their employees. They also are required to use wear transparent/clear plastic purses, handbags, and backpacks. I couldn’t imagine times are bad enough you would have to steal a chicken? They must pay minimum wage. The plant was disgusting. Inside and out it was just appalling. I understand processing makes a lot of waste and messes but cleaning is still necessary. Clearing an area is not cleaning. To be honest the rendering plant for dog food is cleaner.
Probably more worried about cameras and video evidence than theft... evil shit
Boycott Tyson
#GeneralStrike
I have been since it was taken over by China
I've been boycotting them since 2021
this isn't boycotting anymore. its just "unaffordable". were not forming marches or holding rallys to walk into tyson corporate. LOL. we can't even afford that. corporations fail to realize this. company will cut jobs to offset the loss and claim that they "made" money. they keep cutting jobs until there are no more employees. what do they cut next? LOL.
With Keurig, Carhartt, Nike, M&Ms, Bud lite, etc etc etc. Who again is the cancel culture?
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.
The corporate bottom line is still about efficiency and profit. This profit just happens to also involve destroying the way of life that has sustained most people for generations.
Voters don't understand that govt intervention in the economy is essential to stopping monopoly.
Well safe guards weren't enforced. It's to late. Basically America dream worked for a season but the experiment is over. Enjoy what's left ..
Oh yea, it's satanic abuse of everything to ruin life, based on economics that just happen to go that way. It's all rigged
@@presence5426 Voters in America can't tell you how they'd feel if they hadn't eaten breakfast that morning.
Industrial livestock farming is evil. If every American had to visit one of these farms, meat consumption would plummet overnight.
What Do you Expect.What Animal Is More Evil Than HUMANS.? None.
THE OVERALL WELFAIR OF THE ANIMALS. Lmao.
The CHINESE Bought A Lot Of The PIGS.
Americans eat too much god-damned meat anyways. No wonder constipation medicine takes up like an entire aisle in some grocery stores. 😅
I don't eat any meat and I'm leaner and more energetic than ever. I also don't have the guilt of contributing to unnecessary animal suffering and slaughter.
Quality of life in the most basic aspects has gone down in past 50 years.
over a hundred countries refuse to import US pork because of safety and quality issues. let that sink in
We here in Europe allow no animal products from the US and there is extremely tight control on everything else
That has nothing to do with quality. It’s just a bunch of communists protecting local jobs and forcing people to pay higher prices.
And the same goes for US GMO crops too.
How many of those are Muslim countries, though? I know you said "safety and quality issues", but it sounds like something they'd say to avoid stating their real reason.
@@Eldeecue I doubt 100 of those are Muslim countries.
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
Rich gotta rich, poor gotta serve, suffer, and *submit*. 💪😎✌️ If you ain't rich, then you ain't sheet. That's just how mankind has arranged itself over thousands of years. Ain't ne'er gonna change. #copium
@@Novastar.SaberCombat "Mankind" is indoctrinated to think just like you do. Your support is their strength! You are a political zombie.
@user-sq5sl4uz3claughing in lab grown meat
Plants are technically sentient if you can live with eating plants others can live with consuming meat@user-sq5sl4uz3c
Would love to be one of those store owners to tell tyson to go fuck themselves
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.
Oh so your aunt is one if the crazies
Ya feeding people is soooo bad. How dare they
If you can't see the harm of the factory farming of livestock you're either wilfully ignorant or maliciously stupid
@@WhiteyMcPrivileged Their "food" is the part of the reason so many are sick. They pump chickens and hogs with NASTY chemicals. No thanks. My chickens have no shots, are outside during the day and produce amazing yolks. Guess I'll have to start raising hogs next.
@@joshua511
Do you have enough to feed over 350 million people?
Me and my son are trying to raise farrow to finish pigs in Western Illinois and our struggles trying to keep it a family farm. Enjoyed your video on youtube.
I'm not from the US or even a farmer, I'm a railway electrician from the UK, but this makes my blood boil. Farmers are getting treated like 💩 all over the world. One of my coworkers is a farmer. He used to be a full-time farmer, but him and his brother now have to work rail and construction alternatively so they can keep the family farm going. These people are some of the hardest working salt of the earth people around, and they are constantly getting screwed every which way. Let's all start supporting our local producers by boycotting these corporate pieces of 💩. Let's make it an international movement 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸.
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This has been a concerted effort in all first world countries to consolidate ownership of food production to a couple owners. This allows the people in charge (not the UN or any government) to control food production and prices. Expect an event or situation to cut off all or some food production via a false event to make the public panic and either to cause rioting in the streets or to make the public accept some form of control that the people would normally resist. They can turn off our fuel, water and electricity as well. Here in the US we’ve had a lot of meat processing plants burning down or destroyed by ‘storms” or other catastrophe and they don’t replace these plants. They don’t talk about this in the media aside from local media outlets that cover the event so most Americans are unaware of how fragile our food chain actually is. And add in millions of illegal immigrants that also rely on our food supply and it doesn’t take much to get people to freak out.
Thank you! Agreed! Local meat (not vaccinated!) or don’t eat meat! Please tell your coworkers “thank you for your service to the community.” I buy a portion of a grass fed cow direct from the slaughterhouse. Not everyone can do that but you CAN boycott Tyson. #readlabels
@@echohunter4199consolidate to destroy independence
Not just pigs. I had a dairy 40 years ago. The dairies today are paid within $2 of what I got for 100 lbs of milk 40 years ago. Yet the milk, cheese, ice cream is much more expensive in the store than it was 40 years.
2024 Presidential Election results for IOWA:
🢂 55.7% Trump
42.5% Harris
You wanted TRUMP - the DeRegulation President
You DONT WANT THE EPA? REGULATIONS?
You Wanted Conveyor farms...
you Wanted Pig Shit in your lakes and rivers
you wanted Pig Shit in your drinking waters...
NOW SHUT UP AND EAT IT!!!!
I hope TYSON and the other TWO MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF FARMS IN IOWA and PIG SHIT FLOWS DOWN THE STREETS AND ROADS OF IOWA!!!
Dairies are getting $1.80 per gallon for milk and I can buy a gallon at Costco for $2.00 gallon. That doesn't sound unreasonable at all. Matter of fact, how do the retailers, wholesalers, milk plants, truck drivers, etc. make any money at all? Oh sure, the milk plants make a little on cheese and butter but not much.
@@pointreyes4272 Where I am, Tillamook, milk is about $15.00/100 pounds. Raw milk weighs 8.6 pounds.100/8.6 = 11.6 gallons.
$15/11.6 = $1.30 a gallon. And Costco milk is after the cream and most of the butterfat has been removed. So a third or more of the value of that milk has been removed and the processors make the money.
Where did you get the $1.80 per gallon number from????? You’ve obviously got some incorrect information
@@pointreyes4272 Buck eighty for milk 25 years ago.
We need more of this kind of journalism. Keep up the good work
Love this channel and it’s incredible information
To the farmers who were interviewed i send best wishes to your farms .May the both of you grow and prosper despite the odds.Hold on
Yes!!! If they all go, we’re lost.
people need to wake up and support good quality meat. that mass production meat is just less tastefull.... you can see in old grandmother recipe that some spices were never needed because the pork itself had more taste
BLACKROCK is a major stockholder of Tyson, they also owned a lot of Anheiser Busch and were the force behind the Bud light debacle.
Blackrock & Vanguard are a top 3 shareholder in almost every single Fortune 500 company lol they’re a true parasite
@@voolian But who owns Blackrock and Vangaurd, follow the money.
@@power1212 The small hats tribe.
I don't and won't drink budweiser anymore!
Funny how most factory farms are located in red states,where politicians dgaf about ppl
Thank you farmer Ron! Glad I can support you and other farmers by buying Niman Ranch!
Excellent journalism. Very educational.
Small, family farms protect biodiversity … corporate farms destroy biodiversity … that should be the impetus for the government to support sustainable farming… but greed makes them support corporate farming !!
politicians are not going to listen to farmers any more than individuals. Their door is open to lobbiyists of big business/farms. eddit; the gvmt gives $ to some farm owners. One farm had 52 owners, including city dwellers. Unfair IMO, but the pgm exists. Loohole / oversight / shrewd?
Look up RFKJR'S policies. He's huge on supporting small agriculture.
@@chrismatteson2337 I do not cast doubt, yet, the audience dictates every stance by those seeking the job of overlord.
@cliffontheroad your right. But, his biggest stance is getting Americans healthy again and keeping corps out of it. Small family farms does both. It would be hard, but at least he truly wants it.
@@chrismatteson2337 unfortunately he also supports fascist Zionism…
My family's farm in Missouri stopped raising hogs in the 90s when I was 10 exactly because of this. It was awful.
or because the price collapsed? wasn't profitable, lot of people got out then
I WORKED FOR TYSON FOODS IN THE OZARKS... AND LET ME TELL YOU, I NEVER EAT FOOD FROM TYSON. SOME OF THE HOGS THAT WE SENT OUT TO SLAUGHTER WERE TESTABLE. SO SKINNY THAT THEY COULD HARDLY STAND ON THEIR OWN. SOME HAD TUMORS SO BIG THAT THEY DRAGGED THE GROUND. I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO EAT PORK SINCE BEFORE I LEFT THE COMPANY.
I worked at a small local slaughter to butcher in high school and report that comes out of. The pork from there is a different food from industrial pork.
Where's the video, man up!
Detestable?
@@Mark-Rain He doesn't work there anymore.
@@Mark-Rain here's an article of a group that tried reporting: the farm lost it's contract but Tyson puffs about how they care about the animals.
Feel bad for these families. I hope they find a way. Good honest working Americans.
Its a crime what they do to those Hogs
The crime, is the fact that people keep buying their products. The CONSUMER is doing it to the hogs!
@@peter5.056 Not if we could get them elsewhere. Tyson literally drove them out of business.
@@AMcGrath82 The consumer can't pass the buck.
What they do to the animals, the environment, and the people, should all be criminal but US politicians are surprising inexpensive to buy off.
Little thought experiment for you, how many pigs do you think get mistreated and slaughtered by mega corporations in say, Israel, or Egypt? And why might that be?
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 !
Salmonella wasn't nearly as much of a thing until Tyson.
Kyle,anyone raising ,killing or / and eating animals is complicit in the horrific cruelty to defenceless innocent animals.
@@jjradVo so you are vegan ? Well since you know so much about the animal side maybe you should do some research on how every single animal is exterminated for your fields of tofu and herbicide loaded micro greens
@@kylebozell2891 the majority of soybeans and crops are grown to feed the animals you eat.
I have no control over poor farming practices but I do have control over choosing not to deliberately abuse and kill animals to eat.
Why can't you answer my question ?
@@jjradV maybe we should end this here your obviously not intelligent enough to know you didn't even ask a question
I wish the other part of this was linked somewhere here. These monopolies will be the death of us all, animals and humans
So true; but the Globalist & Philanthropists included in the monopolies fail to realize when people, especially middle class are eliminated; the monopolies will collapse with nothing in their possession.
I'm lucky to live around a bunch of family farms. One sells heirloom pork, and the chops they sell taste incredible. Completely different flavor than what you'd buy at a grocery store.
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.
Same. I moved from SFO to VA and then NC. 50% of the population lived on small family farms when I moved here in 1990.
There’s still a large rural population, but now they mostly work in processing plants or in service industries or not at all. The farms are owned by the megacorps, or they’re sold to developers.
Oh, so sad to see.It is happening throughout the country . We are losing our family farms to factory farming .
That is awful. I love driving through rural communities and talking with the people. Some of the nicest down to earth folks there.
Great reporting. Tyson Sucks. Thanks to Ron and the other small farmers for doing it right.
Terrible reporting that they fail to mention what foreign country owns Tyson
I boycotted Tyson and their affiliates long ago. Sara Lee, Hillshire Bros, Jimmy Dean, Wunderbread, there's like 20 more, at least.
If you avoid Tyson and go to Smithfields for pork, then you are buying Chinese as they own Smithfields and over 25% of the US pork industry.
Farmers vote for unregulated capitalism and that’s what they got. 🤷🏻♂️
I am a farmer. I grew Up on a farm. It was a way of life for me and my family. It Was tough but I would not have it any other way and I think it is very wrong to monopolize agriculture and Rob people of their livelihood and way of living.
2024 Presidential Election results for IOWA:
🢂 55.7% Trump
42.5% Harris
You wanted TRUMP - the DeRegulation President
You DONT WANT THE EPA? REGULATIONS?
You Wanted Conveyor farms...
you Wanted Pig Shit in your lakes and rivers
you wanted Pig Shit in your drinking waters...
NOW SHUT UP AND EAT IT!!!!
I hope TYSON and the other TWO MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF FARMS IN IOWA and PIG SHIT FLOWS DOWN THE STREETS AND ROADS OF IOWA!!!
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
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….
They deserved what they got for engaging with evil Tyson in the first place.
And you feel bad for them why? Nobody forced their hand to take out mortgages
@@jeep1987 I don’t feel bad, no one signed papers but them. Tyson did a family member wrong. That’s all
@@jeep1987I feel bad for them because of government restrictions out of nowhere it was 60-120k dollars per chicken house to get it upfitted.
@@CharlesBridges-b9iI live 15 minutes away from Tysons corporate. Idk Tysons is still a lot better than Walmart right up the road. Personally I really like Simmons good people and good food.
This truly explains the American way. Governments supported corporate greed.
Technically that is fascism
@@danielturner9832these companies are being bought up by china etc these billionaires who own American corporations and companies are not gonna do things for the American worker or the communities they are in
this is how corporations sell contaminated food in America, bribe officials, and never ever see any justice for the victims nor punishment for the crimes committed. there doesnt go a day where you dont hear about recalls from listeria outbreaks or e. coli or salmonella. most of what you eat has half the nutritional value it used to have half a century ago. ruclips.net/video/Ax0SIbxgqDw/видео.html
Technically it's republican
@@danielturner9832 what do they expect, they imported n*zis during WW2, now those they imported became rich and even embedded in the government.
Bring the old way of farming back , they treated the animals well. Just because these animals are for food they should NOT be treated badly. Animals should not be locked up in building all their lives, there life is short enough so why not let the enjoy what time the have. Stop this abuse on these poor animals.
Bring family farms back ❤
It’s time for the poor hardworking Americans to unite together against corporate farmers. We cannot let them control everything and destroy our great country.
The problem is we all have to come together in our politics first. We all just too divided.
Its call socialism
You are about to vote Trump back in power (let's face it, the wannabe black girl that isn't a black girl but is in fact a Nepo baby from slave owners Harris stands no chance)
Guess who Trump will favor when making laws?
It has already happened long ago while non farming people weren't paying attention. Family farmers have been talking about this for decades & no one was listening. It's not only livestock. It is vegetables, fruit, salad greens, literally everything we eat. People need to change who they are buying their meat, veges, fruit & etc from. Find family farms & buy from them whenever possible. More nutrient dense, no hormone implants, no antibiotics unless needed for a specific infection, raised on the land on pasture where they belong.
I live in a town near Austin that is essentially a glorified subdivision. What you have said about agriculture similarly applies to real estate. In and around Austin land is strip mined for real estate. Keep in mind that corporations are run by likely narcissistic people
And Narcissists are a creation of broken homes.
Every social issue goes back to the breakup of the family and people wanting to play god…
You never want weak losers in charge of running a company because they are easily beholden to money greed etc - not - doing what is right
They love to hide behind “bro we’re just building shareholder value maaaan”
real estate is problem of austins(and the rest of the US) shit zoning laws. abolish zoning laws and youll get actual urbanization instead of the never ending urban sprawl
@@TheWizardGamezlack of zoning laws means you get a hellacious shithole that floods every year like Houston
The corporate offices don't pay their bills on time either! Back in the '90's I worked in a corporate office for a large home/office supply chain. I did Accounts Receivable-Corporate Collections. Tyson was a main customer!! Their outstanding debt was in the millions BEFORE I even arrived at that company. They pass the buck alot. Another company I worked at also had issues with Tyson's bill paying (or lack of). Them and Foster Farms. Those two never pay bills on time.
I used to sell chemicals to the wastewater plants that Tyson operates at their chicken processing plants, I ran into this issue all the time. These companies have billions and yet will push everything out for a $3500 invoice until my company is threatening to pull my commission unless it is paid.
This is a common practice by many (maybe most) large corporations. It is not unusual for their accounting depts. to routinely pay bills at 90 days past due.
Check out Lake Erie and Algea blooms. Our beaches are basically shut down here in south east Michigan come mid summer.
we need to support our small farmer
No shit
Too late for that, the marketplace would have to collapse, otherwise farmers would fight a war they cannot win with such a consumption-based society.
@@anfrex3342 NO WATER FOR YOU
We need to limit businessman and attorneys in Congress and the senate. Ds and R's don't want to hear that.
No, we need to pass a constitutional amendment restricting one person from having more then term in political office for their lifetime and restricting bureaucrats to 5 to 10 years of working for the government per life. Military excluded. And no retirement for government workers or politicians.
And you cannot work for governments or run for office once you hit the age of 55
If you listen to RFKJR he is fighting against such farming practices
I'd argue that corporate consolidation has put profit above all else, not efficiency. Efficiency is another tool they can use to drive profits.
All corporate are greedy Luigi show us this in the health care insurance case
Tyson converted farmers into sharecroppers.
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Farmers did it to themselves
NADA!!!
@@RJ1999xnah...
@@ThaKandyLady as an actual farmer, trust me, when I tell you
Notice these folks at More Perfect Union do no employ stock footage in their edited videos. They are really commited to the message they craft.
That’s true. They drive out to the sites and stay there recording, interviewing and researching.
All that work and the average person still doesn’t do anything about their exposures. Pitiful.
Tyson is evil.
Corporations are evil, Tyson is just one of them.
Yep they're factorys are horrendous so are Cargill's
don't worry his hot seat is ready for him down below,
there's always a cost to our evils
They go hand in hand with Walmart
According to the Economic Research Service (ERS), 98% of farms in the United States are family-owned. The remaining 2% are nonfamily farms.
Cattle farmer here - From Iowa. Might wanna do a deep dive on how the FDA was started and how little subsidies were given to small farmers during C-19’er. (hint: look at a certain president from out past)
Also if you were looking for a reason why beef has doubled in price in the last 5 years I can provide insight on that as well.
They have done a video on cattle ranchers. It's a good video, I recommend it
I know smaller scale cattle ranchers & none of them received any government hand outs of money in 2020. However, it was the corporate dirt farmers who received most of that money to bail them out in 2019, 2020 due to tarrifs increasing cost of imported seed, fertilizer & imputs by 300%. Livestock producers ate the cost of feed cost that doubled, tripled & auction prices for 500 lb to 800 lb calves didn't increase & left them barely breaking even or at a loss. That is why the smaller family ranches have gone to keeping their calves, raise & finish them & are selling direct to consumer meat sales. It eliminates the middle men who make all the money & puts it in the ranchers pockets where it belongs.
I use to raise cattle so I do know the industry & not talking from hearsay.
The meat industry in America is absolutely revolting.... I may not be a vegetarian but my meat consumption has dropped to the local butcher shop and very little consumption. I really wish I didn't know about it
Completely agree.
I still consume some packaged meat, but I eat a tiny fraction of what I did before.
The meat industry demands so much human and animal suffering. It's just not worth it. Especially for meat from large animals (eg. cows, pigs).
I try to eat that sort of meat as rarely as possible and just supplement for my vitamin and protein needs.
We've gotten to this weird place where we think that having meat every day, in almost every meal, is normal. For most of history, it wasn't.
@@greygryphon6881 I believe for the most part, animals were eaten in religious sacrificial contexts. That was the norm. Now people eat them regardless and in whatever way without taking thought. An animal that was sacrificed was supposed to be treated right and die humanely for it to be a victim “that absorbed sins.” It died on the behalf of someone else - that sort of thinking
Tome to support your local farmer . They need our help and produce a much healthier product.
I had a brother who worked for one of those producers and was injured when a side of beef fell on him and he spent the rest of his short life on disability addicted to pain killers which finally took his life. There is a human cost!
😢😢😢
That could happen with any employer..
I have met Don Tyson at a Kansas Livestock Association annual meeting. We as ranchers were concerned about Tyson doing this to the cattle industry. I grew up in Iowa its sad what happened to hog farming . Sadly I see the cattle ranchers going down the same road.
Our farmers deserve far better than they are getting. They are the providers of life and nourishment.
It’s up to the consumers to advocate. The current landscape basically is pitting consumers against farmers. I’ll tell you right now. People are asking me where they can get raw milk and I will not tell them where I get my raw milk from because I’m protecting the farmers, I know. Consumers have put a bad taste in Farmer’s mouth in terms of dealing with them direct. Make no mistake, farmers will always make sure they get good food for themselves and their families, but it’s the nation that’s going to suffer with poor health, if consumers won’t protect, farmers with action.
@@peachykeen7634 Consumers? Advocating? Some will. Most don't gaf b/c they don't realize what is at stake. This is not just about diet at this point. This sort of outcome pitting consumers against farmers will absolutely play into the hands of mega-corporations seeking to control all facets of daily human life. Foment distrust, profit. Control the only source of food and you control how people live... and decide when people don't.
Farmers get what they vote for
@ farmers voted for Trump, this issue is because of CORRUPTION. Easy for you to blow
Off the problem if you refuse to acknowledge rigged elections.
How about no. Those farmers are the ones who sold out in the first place. I say screw them all.
Grew up on a small farm in ND with a variety of animals. Nothing can compare with the cuteness of a little pink pig! ❤
agree, not the same story for the 600 pound boars though 😂
I buy all my pork from "The Arrowhead Ranch" Located in Birch Tree Mo. They raise 'em in start to finish in the forrest, free to graze as they wish and fed grain daily. Their motto is "Happy pigs make good BBQ." So, forget the rest support the best. The Arrowhead Ranch.
@rickybobby7276 oh shut up 😂
@@matthewconnor5483 how do you murder the pigs ?
Do your little bacon eaters watch you taking their life or do you drop them off at the slaughter house and let someone else kill them ?
@@JohnSmith-uv4ox how happy are they when they are being murdered ?
I don't know I think that's not happy will still be tasty on the barbecue
thankyou,,, on it!!!!!!
The word efficiency is the money word for all business.
I've worked for a large well known Japanese corporation. In the factories, they literally count the number of steps between work stations. They will reconfigure the work stations to minimize the steps between them to maximize the actual production processes.
They continuously do time studies of each operation to look for ways to cut production time. And of course if you can reduce the number of employees through efficiency improvements, that's all the better for big corporate profits.
A lot of this started with Henry Ford who came up with the modern production assembly line.
Pretty much every problem can be traced back to someone lifting themselves up, with other people's bootstraps.
Breakup of the family and god = $$$$. That’s the problem
@07wrxtr1
God?! 😂🤦🏽♂️
God=Abuse, corruption and excuses for hate and violence.
You keep that superstition/religion garbage to yourself. (Snort! Spit!).
The same thing happened in the UK. Corporations own it all. They squeeze the farmers at one end and the consumer at the other. If pollution standards were enforced the lobbyists would go to the politicians to get welfare while the ordinary taxpayer foots the bill and struggles to get by.
You are underselling how bad this is in some areas. I am an apprentice butcher in a small town. All of the chicken everybody in this town eats be it fresh, frozen, or already cooked in the deli it all comes from Tyson.
Thank for this information.
This is heartbreaking. Hog farmers are so important. It takes a special kind of care to raise them properly. Pigs are smart. This is cruel to everyone involved, especially so the pigs.
Super grateful I can get locally produced, small farm meats but that's not the norm anymore...
When sharecropping was practiced in the south, people in Iowa thought it was someone else's problem. It has caught up with them; but they do not even recognize it for what it is. Imbalance of economic power between two "consenting" business partners is a straight road to dependency and serfdom.
Greedy corporations, destroying family farms, destroying our health. 😢
My Grandpa Raised pigs the same way. Old Dutch Huts and open grazing, also sold to Nieman Ranch. Some of the best pork you’ll ever have. He had a poster and a short bio about him and his farm hanging in most Chipotles for years. I can’t remember now the last time I saw an old hog lot on a farm. Sadly that way of life is long gone.
We have factory pig farms all over NC. Some them have been fined due to waste water leaching into water ways and causing ammonia gas in the local community.
and the poor animal's god put us in charge of..
@@shekharmoona544 The hog farms in the Carolina’s are primarily owned by Smithfield a company owned by China.
The State of Iowa is totally to blame. They are in the pockets of big business.
Anything that the big businesses want, they get.
No, the voters in Iowa are to blame.
Yep puppets have been the downfall of America
I try to buy as much of my meat & eggs from local farmers as I can. Sadly, it's getting harder and harder to find anything within a reasonable driving distance these days. I suspect that's exactly what the food industry wants.
You mean the beta males running corporate “america”
I quit buying pork when the CAFOs started, heard too much about them. Wouldn't buy pork until local raised pork became available at our farmers mkt. That was 15 or 20 years.
Smithfield is Largest pork producer in Us. They be Chinese.
Google the stockholders
I hope Iowa’s voters are holding their governor accountable along with everyone else enabling this monopoly!
Iowa ppl are profiting from all this aswell. It goes both ways. They ain't gonna take they're own jobs away
It's a stark reminder of how economic shifts can devastate local communities. Small family farms disappearing while profits soar for a select few conglomerates raises serious questions about sustainability and fairness in agriculture.
If you're outraged by this, ask yourself. "Why do I keep giving them my money?" These companies are nothing without a willing consumer to fund their practices.
What's even worse.... they are just part of another bigger umbrella. Last product map I saw had some like 5 or 6 umbrellas with all the things. Its all a lie.
the short answer is "incentives". we don't want to see our fellow workers destitute because we decided to boycott over the outrageous behavior of their bosses.
the slightly longer answer is "marketing". there's a reason small businesses are dying and it's not because capitalists love competition... it's literally the opposite.
you have it backwards. it's as if you think the owners of commercial buildings only make money by collecting rents from businesses that want to use the office space.
long story short, real capitalists do not get into business to "make money"; they get into business to employ the massive wealth they already have to secure a dominant position in an industry and use it the way ordinary people use retirement/pension accounts... or at least the way ordinary people used to use those accounts. if you're getting into business to make money you don't yet have, then you've already lost to the monopolists. remember: workers can't own and owners don't work.
@@BrickGriff With my dollar, I incentivize farmers to grow the food I eat: lentils, potatoes, wheat, corn, vegetables.....
@@peter5.056 you grant subsidies?
I've looked around on Google maps at some of these areas - I started seeing a recurring, very common, type of property - multiple Large barns in rows of about 3-4 with a small pond nearby that appeared to be bright green. These types of properties are dotted all around Iowa and other states in that region. The ponds I believe are collection ponds for all the urine/waste that comes out of these buildings.
We need to share this everywhere
Im from Arkansas i remember doing a report on Tyson in school in the 90s (there were only or mostly chicken then) they've been shady forever man. Ive raised pigs from the 80s to like 2013 14 and i stopped eating pork in 2005. If you're able to homestead/farm please do it. A few chickens, ducks, geese, guineas, hogs, goats etc and a pond for fish/waterfoul will save you lots of money and you'll be much healthier 💯🫡
More perfect union videos often make me cry. I thought i wasnt gonna cry in this one till they started showing all the pigs at the end
The meat industry is cruel. There is no getting around that fact.
Good report
Tyson will get exclusive contracts with hundreds of farmers and then shut them down and leave town. They also like to shut down plants for no good reason except to reopen a plant to hire much cheaper labor.....pathetic...
Storm Lake, Iowa. A beautiful town that's bankrolled by Tyson. And the native townsfolk were displaced almost entirely by immigrants they pay close to minimum wage.
We don’t even buy meat at the grocery stores anymore. Butcher Box only sources from independent farmers (free/open range, no antibiotics, no growth hormones etc). They process their own meats and deliver to our door as often as we want.
It tastes so much better, I’ll never go back.
Sounds like a much better option for consumers who can afford it in this ungodly expensive world
@@jeffb321 just fyi, it’s a subscription and we set the dates as well as size of order. We are a fam of 4, two teenagers. Our order is usually every three months for $150-200. I think it’s cheaper than Costco.
@@jeffb321 Most people in the US have a butcher within a reasonable driving distance at least for now until the topic of this video is fully implemented. Buying directly from a butcher sources healthier local raised meat and is only slightly more expensive than buying from a grocery store. Anyone not living in a tiny NYC apartment could likely figure out a way to have a deep freezer full of locally sourced meat for less than they spent on their last smart phone or less than they spend buying things they don't need over the course of a month or 2 on amazon.
I'm getting beef from a local small grass-fed operation. You need a chest freezer for that.
There is only one problem: how many Americans can afford the meat prices of Butcher Box?
Fun bonus, after the Kim Reaper and her goons weaseled their way into re-opening the Tysons plants and such early in the plague some of the Tysons management were running literal deadpools.
Tyson was smuggling cocaine in his boxed chicken, pork, etc.
Yes, heaven forbid Iowa kept supplying food to people in the midst of a plague
@@Ghostofachance-iw8prwhere are the indictments & charges?. Otherwise your statement is pure conspiracy theories & bs.
I made the decision over a year ago to no longer by anything from tyson foods and Wal-Mart because of what they have done to the small farmers in America. Now I raise most of my own food and me and my family are a better for ir.
People need to support local farmers!
It's a publicly traded company. The only thing that matters to them is the share price.
Not only the share price. Also profitability and many other corporate interests.
Most farmers are against unions and are voting against their interests.
Unions are not the major force amongst the farming community. They are almost non existing due to automatization. Coops are big amongst farmers.
Unions eventually get taken over subtly by the corporations they're trying to control
U nailed it the Republicans have brain washed them for years
You elitists think you know what is best for everyone. I bet you've never made anything in your life.
Smithfield is owned by the Chinese government. Smithfield also owns brands like Hormel, Ekrich, Farmland, Kretshmar, Cooks, Nathans, Armour, and many more brands.
Wrong! They owned by American not Chinese. Stop blaming your shitty country issues to others. 😂
China quietly infiltrating US. Very smart, Don't waste $ on war. Very smart. Everything is for sale
They don't own hormel
True & Horrible! Such a shame that sleeping sheep fail to realize that Everything from China is Chronic Poison. How much of that poison is the intention of CCP to complete their quest-to win the war without a shot fired?
No it exports to China it is owned by WHO corporate
The collapse of the family farm and consolidation of large corporate industrial farms is the downfall of our food supply. We have to bring back the family farms.
Why are we not allowed to talk about how the employment of illegal/undocumented immigrant labor is a fundamental component of the beef/chicken/pork industry? Tyson Foods would never have been able to do this without being a primary employer of illegal/undocumented immigrants. Being politically correct does not mask this issue. Right now, go to the pork raising houses that were featured in this video, and you will witness most of the hard labor being performed by illegal/undocumented immigrants, but somehow, this is never shown. Why?
I can't even imagine what the meat packing plants filled with illegals has done to Iowa's demographic balance. I won't even go back there because I'm afraid of what I'd see.
Unfortunately I've traveled all over the country and seen the same thing. Tyson is not the only one doing this.
The value graphed at 0:50 of $11 million on Iowa's 23.8 million hogs has to be a mistake. That's only 46 cents per hog. The chart should be billions of dollars, not millions.
Shameful on so many levels, more people NEED to know this, things need to change