@@amyb5339 or producing it ourselves! I make videos on that as well- I raise meat chickens, layers, pigs, beef cattle, hair sheep, meat turkeys, and goats!
@ I am my own local farmer 🤣 but it's true. The price of cattle is sky-high right now so many are selling out to the auction. Beef cattle population in the US is the lowest it has been since the 60s
yes, the outsourcing of value added products will be the destruction of our nations. Canada did the same thing to our raw logs, now the entire forestry industry is in danger of collapse
But isn’t that exactly what running a business is supposed to do. Be profitable. It’s a free market economy and not socialism. The company that can do it better and cheaper will always be profitable, regardless of the effects on local workers and consumers. Besides, nothing but a bunch of illegal immigrants working in those places , so they were going to be deported anyway.
@@russellstewart5414 Those people will be the cause of our nation to collapse. There's a difference between being profitable and rampant greed that puts others at risk. Canada's forest industry has almost collapsed due to the raw lumber being sent out of country. Those jobs are lost to someone else. We need to make laws protecting these jobs from being send out of nation.
@KCBluesJams PAY GOOD N U WON'T HAVE A SHORTAGE OF GOOD QUALIFIED WORKERS. ITS THE MIDDLE MAN BROKER THATS MAKING ALL THE $ & OF COURSE CORPERATE GREED. PROOF. EVERY STORE BASICALLY SELLS THE EXACT SAME PRODUCTS WITH SAME NAME ETC BUT ANSWER ME THIS WHY DOES IT COST LESS AT ALDIS, TEN ALITTLE MORE AT SHOP N SAVE, SAVE A L9T, TGEN WAY MORE AT SCHNUCKS & EVEN WAY WAY MORE AT DERBERGS. 4 THE EXACT SAME PRODUCTS. CORPERATE GREED !!!
Hopefully President Trump will help with that. He promised to bring manufacturing to The United States. Hopefully he will provide pathways for start-ups in agricultural production too!
@@lindaamelung145 Republicans will never regulate big business. Trump is for the free market and if your chicken nuggets cost more next year he will not care.
@@solarwind907 The usual reason to block foreign ownership is national security. I don't know why the US would have a Chinese company own the US's largest pork processor. Friendly countries should be allowed to operate smaller size facilities though IMO.
Google AI: No, Tyson Foods does not process chickens in China and ship them back to the United States. Tyson says that all of the chicken it sells in the U.S. is raised and processed in the U.S., and that it has no plans to raise or process chicken in China. Tyson Foods does have an international supply chain that allows it to meet demand in nearly any market. In 2019, Tyson received approval to export American poultry to China from all of its U.S. processing plants.
I no longer buy Tyson, Smithfield or Wrights. I try to stay away from commercial brand names with meats and poultry and as much as possible. I try to buy local and from farms.
I’m a former public school middle school teacher. How dare you teach children to think for themselves! (sarcasm hopefully noted). Thanks for pointing these facts out to all of us. USDA must unfetter our producers and allow for more opportunities to direct market to consumers or operate through co-ops. Big Food is not at all interested in its customers or suppliers. Hopefully, Joel Salatin can help move the needle away from corporate control. Every American should begin to produce even a little of their own food.
Theyre trying to change the whole food system and supply chain and shut farmers everywhere down. And change the monetary system to digital currency to be controlled by artificial intelligence
I already buy my dairy from a dairy that is 30 minutes from me, that is a family farm (NYS has many family farm dairies). I get my beef from a family member who buys beef from his neighbor, as well as getting eggs from that same family member. Only my mackerel I get from a company, and they are a managed fishery. Fun fact the family farm dairies in NY are 75+ years old.
The problem with that is the poultry industry doesn't operate like tge beef industry. The poultry farmers never actually own the chickens themselves. They provide the housing and labor, the poultry companies supply the chickens, feed, etc.
My wife and I live rural and we buy 85 percent of our ag products from a local meat market that is all sourced locally. We have chickens for eggs and a half acre garden not to Mention a freezer full of deer meat. I think it's going to be people that live in the big cities that will have trouble getting what they need.
I live rural as well but people here heavily rely on going into town for food. Next to no one has so much as a few chickens and only a few have a (very small) garden. "It's too hard" "it's too much work" "I'm too busy" Excuses, excuses, excuses. No grit. Oh, and of the neighbors' homes I've been in, only ONE has extra freezers. ALL the rest just have the standard kitchen fridge/freezer combo. And forget canning!! Pffffft, that's too much work! Sigh.
@ I know it's hard working A half acre garden but the reward is the money my wife and I save . And what we don't use we give to family and friends . The same goes with the deer meat. We are in our mid 60's and draw our SS Benefits but I still work Occasionally.
We are literally picking up equipment from the Kansas location being shut down that's going back to Iowa, today. Very sad situation for the workers as I'm from that area.
It seems they’re only hiring people who they import into the US (that we have to pay for). Sorry, The price of chicken is too high with THAT price tag.
Exactly. There's a Tyson factory in Charleroi Pa that has vans bringing in Haitians and Venezuelans for work every day. They'll have to either close down or hire Americans once these people are sent back home. And they will be sent back home. @dawnclabaugh3598
The farmers should be Regenerative farming to naturally add carbon back into the soil, fertilizing the land as ruminant animals graze, breaking grass, activating homeostasis & producing oxygen. This is the opposite of inhuman, unsustainable, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly industrial agriculture out for profit & not for the health of humanity. These industrial companies like Tyson are getting our family owned farms shut down, paying off corrupt government officials to create unfair regulations that create environmental taxes because of the pollution caused by industrial farms.
Really interesting and in line with another video I saw with cattle ranchers indicating similar moves from the beef processing industry. Seems like they are also doing it to keep prices artificially elevated.
Don't forget about the big corporate processing plants that are refusing independent cattle. Cattle not in possession of the large corporations are increasingly being ignored.
I really enjoyed this. Very informative. The states need to help farmers and processors become co-ops? Sad to say free markets aren't what they use to be. And it's going to get very bad soon. Stay safe.
@starsiegeRoks Yes, and this will not change until "citizens united" is repealed and corporate lobbying of congressional members is reigned in. As it is now, congressional constituents are not "we the people", they are "we the corporate elite".
The farmers should be Regenerative farming to naturally add carbon back into the soil, fertilizing the land as ruminant animals graze, breaking grass, activating homeostasis & producing oxygen. This is the opposite of inhuman, unsustainable, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly industrial agriculture out for profit & not for the health of humanity. These industrial companies like Tyson are getting our family owned farms shut down, paying off corrupt government officials to create unfair regulations that create environmental taxes because of the pollution caused by industrial farms.
Thank you for the info! As a retired science teacher and now an owner of a 10 acre ranch of meat goats (Kikos) and a dozen chickens, I agree that we all need to do something to supply even a little bit of our own food. I've had chickens for eggs for yrs, but hope this spring to start hatching some of my eggs for meat - got a very nice incubator at a reasonable price. (All of my chickens are duel purpose breeds.) I'm going to hit that subscribe button!
@BrianM-44041 I've got carpal tunnel in my wrists (lose of hand strength). I don't think I would be able to handle milking, plus , if this year has been what I have to look forward to, I've spent too much time at various doctors! You know it's bad when all the receptionists know your name as you walk into the office!
@monicaluketich6913 I feel that. I have arthritis and carpal tunnel too and I'm only 52. Have the old man do the milking lol. JK I get it, a balance of what's best and what's doable is what we have to work with. For me the worst part would be getting low enough to milk anything. Lol they have single animal milking machines but again you have to hook them up and get the beast to stay still long enough. Maybe you're better off just buying milk. Goat milk tastes odd at first anyway. Best of luck, may your carpal tunnel hurt less. 🙏
@AmyThrash There's a lot in our food system that doesn't make sense. I live in an area that produces much of the nation's apples, cherries, etc., but you know where our local warehouses ship the very best fruit? Asia - esp. Japan, because that's where the money is, and then the apples WE get - even though we're surrounded by orchards - come from out of state. I go to the farmer's market for local produce + eggs, or sign up for their CSA. It isn't cheap, but I want to support local farmers.
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That non compete agreement would have a hard time standing up in court with a competent lawyer and the local farmers getting together and trying to buy the facility, or start a sort of Co-op of their own. Non competes are just like NDA's, not worth the paper their printed on unless the person, or business that had them signed can prove they have been hurt financially etc. As long as it's not nefarious illegal activity, it's just a piece of paper. At least that's what I have told for over 40 yrs. Not a legal expert, just my experience.
Tyson bought out a local family owned large processor in my state a few years ago. The price of chicken has gone up about 40% since the buy out. Monopolies are greedy. They have power and they use it.
@AgWithKatieM Yes please "DO" an explanation of origin of manufacturing......ext. This NEEDS TO BE TAKEN UP BY OUR CONGRESS.... There's supposedly a law that Obama passed very secretly passed about any backyard gardens belonged to the Government !!!! Whats with this ??? Don't remember the bill #...
“Distributed By” means just that, who distributed the finished goods. Country of Origin identity is required for the raw ingredients that went into making the finished goods and is listed on the ingredient specification. These specs are held by the manufacturer/supplier for regulatory purposes. It’s impractical/costly to list the country of origin on packaging for every ingredient that went into the food.
great job Katie! Showing the students the entire food production, processing and marketing chain is very important. Food safety, security , affordability and availability are the challenges of the future.
We are having the same problem down here in New Zealand. Dairy is worth more $$$ then growing sheep & cattle hence less animals for processing to much competition for the available animals so they have to pay the farmer more $$$ so they have reached agreements with each other not to cross defined borders & they are throwing their workers into redundancy by closing meat works it's cheaper to truck animals for miles & hours
Katie, what is the process when an agency says your chickens need culled. Killed on spot? Taken somewhere? How are the animals tested to prove needing culled?
The same “inflation/monopoly” happened recently in the chlorine industry. Olin bought several chlorine manufacturers facilities. Immediately shut down two of them. Said one was beyond repair, the second would be down 3-5 years for repairs. They then throttled down production, on the remaining facilities they bought. Four years ago, chlorine gas, was being bought for $.29/#. We are now back down to $1.01/#. It peaked at $1.12/#. We use 50#’s a day. Potable water treatment.
It's cheap and relatively easy to produce your own chicken. We do one or two batches of chicks each year and produce all our chicken(TBH we do buy extra wings to have wing nights). The space needed in minimal. We have a chicken tractor that is 10 years old and still functional, our birds live outside in the sun and on green grass. We can process 25 birds in a morning and we lend out our plucker to friends. We do live in the country but I think most people do not want to get their hands dirty or really know where their meat comes from. I have never eaten a chicken nugget and we refer to them as beaks and feet.
Thanks a lot for your work. I’ve been trying to buy more locally produced food in general. I’ll start paying attention to the source of my chicken from now on, thanks to you :-) I think it’s great that you’re a teacher because teaching kids critical thinking skills is really important. If you have the time, tell them how you researched the information you’re giving them. The thought process and key strokes you go through are important lessons as well as the subject matter they produce. Sincere, thanks and all the best to you.
We have a big local poultry industry and the stores are big on carrying local foods. I could probably buy chicken right from a farmer / small abattoir If I wanted. Some people do not have local poultry.
These big companies don't care about their workers. Less plants means they have fewer workers to provide wages to and less overhead. It's all about profits.
This has been going on in all industry in this country for more than 10 years . This is major reason for inflation . To increase profits corporations are limiting supply to raise prices . More profit less cost . Saw it happening in 2017 in the processed potato industry in north America
The farmers should be Regenerative farming to naturally add carbon back into the soil, fertilizing the land as ruminant animals graze, breaking grass, activating homeostasis & producing oxygen. This is the opposite of inhuman, unsustainable, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly industrial agriculture out for profit & not for the health of humanity. These industrial companies like Tyson are getting our family owned farms shut down, paying off corrupt government officials to create unfair regulations that create environmental taxes because of the pollution caused by industrial farms.
It's misinformation. George Bush approved importing our chickens, processing them and sending them back in 2006. But you won't Google it because you don't want the truth.
I quit buying Tyson brand completely in 2021. The flavor, texture and color were changed. We now raise and butcher our own chickens, turkeys, pork and beef -- and they are all raised close confinement free (Free Range) on organic grasses and weeds.
I don’t buy any Tyson products. I buy from local farmers! Product so much better. Im happier knowing where my food came from, how it was grown and processed. I can stop at my local farmers place anytime and actually see the process myself!
Trident Seafoods is sending their Alaskan Salmon to be processed in China and then sent back to the US to be sold here. No wonder there are so many food recalls.
I witnessed the changeover of small chicken farms in east Oklahoma in 2022. Many small family farms had brand new barns put up and a Tyson sign out front. It was astonishing how many sold out. This is how they take over an industry, just like pork. People need to stop selling to corporate entities. If a corporation wants to buy it, a smaller local USA investor would pay the same price. Value is value. We do have investors that believe in American agriculture, but they are not at the top of the "food chain", look a few steps down the ladder.
I pray that the USDA has the collartel to get the legislators and FCC to have Tyson pay off all the loans of the barns that farmers built to service the now closed plants.
China is not buying from America. There is over-capacity in America. Instead of competition to lower the price. It makes more money to close down processing capacity. With so few in the game, easy to coordinate. We all make more money this way. The consumer they are the food for the rich and wealthy.
They need to pass the prime act that is stuck in the main farm bill. State inspected processing needs to be allowed again so thousands of small independent farmers can solve these food security issues with corporate ag that own all the usda plants.
How could it possibly be less expensive to ship all of that chicken and pork around the world? Sell the farm to your spouse or kids, then the non compete is gone
The farmers should be Regenerative farming to naturally add carbon back into the soil, fertilizing the land as ruminant animals graze, breaking grass, activating homeostasis & producing oxygen. This is the opposite of inhuman, unsustainable, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly industrial agriculture out for profit & not for the health of humanity. These industrial companies like Tyson are getting our family owned farms shut down, paying off corrupt government officials to create unfair regulations that create environmental taxes because of the pollution caused by industrial farms.
Coops are looking good right now. I thought this would eventually happen. With less regularion the product from china will probably be called US product. Gotta boycott this stuff but it is probably going to be in fast food. Countries need to keep their food production
That was more of a commentary on the attitude of these industries that treat their employees with what I call “casual distain”. I’m a 70 year old engineer who works in the computer industry but I’ve been around long enough to understand the hardships that this causes. BTY I live in Newport News Virginia so I’m real close to Smithfield Processing plant. We also have Tyson and Perdue plants within about 100 miles. I always enjoy listening to sane, rational people who care about others. The worst among us seem to have the loudest voices and the lowest IQ’s.
The farmers should be Regenerative farming to naturally add carbon back into the soil, fertilizing the land as ruminant animals graze, breaking grass, activating homeostasis & producing oxygen. This is the opposite of inhuman, unsustainable, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly industrial agriculture out for profit & not for the health of humanity. These industrial companies like Tyson are getting our family owned farms shut down, paying off corrupt government officials to create unfair regulations that create environmental taxes because of the pollution caused by industrial farms.
They can go home n talk to family n they might get smart n raise them on their own.... Well people keep selling out to garbage politicians n never stand tfu n fight
Me too. Her teaching and communication skills are off the scale of impressivness. Furthermore, her students are understatedly fortunate to have such a life long inspiration.
There are full page ad's in the local paper specific to farmers/rancher's to reach out for mental health help. They talk about the veterans rates of self annihilation but not the high rates of Farmers and Rancher's. It's an epidemic. 💜
@@gordonplatter9162 We were self sufficient because we had small farms, local businesses, and family businesses that people supported. That ended in the 80s when large corporations started taking over family farms, Walmart drove out mom and pop businesses, etc. Can we get back to those days? Only if we can get corporations out of politics and give people a chance to compete on a small scale.
Really brings home the idea of buying from your local farmer.😊
@@amyb5339 or producing it ourselves! I make videos on that as well- I raise meat chickens, layers, pigs, beef cattle, hair sheep, meat turkeys, and goats!
Only problem is their chickens are half the size and twice the price
have gotten my beef and eggs for 2+ years from a family farm, i have never eaten anything tyson makes.
Assuming your local farmers haven't been put out of business by Monsanto, Tyson, and the sort.
@ I am my own local farmer 🤣 but it's true. The price of cattle is sky-high right now so many are selling out to the auction.
Beef cattle population in the US is the lowest it has been since the 60s
I remember the 2022 deal with China to process our chickens.
Nothing but greed & a perfect example of Corporate monopolies.
Thanks for posting!
Greed,,, ahm, fake money; makes the world go round and round.
@@lts30000 Bitcoin fake $$
yes, the outsourcing of value added products will be the destruction of our nations. Canada did the same thing to our raw logs, now the entire forestry industry is in danger of collapse
But isn’t that exactly what running a business is supposed to do. Be profitable. It’s a free market economy and not socialism. The company that can do it better and cheaper will always be profitable, regardless of the effects on local workers and consumers. Besides, nothing but a bunch of illegal immigrants working in those places , so they were going to be deported anyway.
@@russellstewart5414 Those people will be the cause of our nation to collapse. There's a difference between being profitable and rampant greed that puts others at risk. Canada's forest industry has almost collapsed due to the raw lumber being sent out of country. Those jobs are lost to someone else. We need to make laws protecting these jobs from being send out of nation.
DO WHAT THE COW HERDERS DID. THEY RAISED 300 MILLION TO BUILD THEIR OWN BEEF PROCESSING PLANT. ILL BUY IN.
Thats absolutely awesome take our country back God help the USA
😂 try finding people to work in them for the money and benefits you will want to pay 😉
@KCBluesJams PAY GOOD N U WON'T HAVE A SHORTAGE OF GOOD QUALIFIED WORKERS. ITS THE MIDDLE MAN BROKER THATS MAKING ALL THE $ & OF COURSE CORPERATE GREED. PROOF. EVERY STORE BASICALLY SELLS THE EXACT SAME PRODUCTS WITH SAME NAME ETC BUT ANSWER ME THIS WHY DOES IT COST LESS AT ALDIS, TEN ALITTLE MORE AT SHOP N SAVE, SAVE A L9T, TGEN WAY MORE AT SCHNUCKS & EVEN WAY WAY MORE AT DERBERGS. 4 THE EXACT SAME PRODUCTS. CORPERATE GREED !!!
@@KCBluesJams Wow.
What a horrible, negative thing to say.
Hearders 😂
Independent processors are desperately needed.
Hopefully President Trump will help with that. He promised to bring manufacturing to The United States. Hopefully he will provide pathways for start-ups in agricultural production too!
Unfortunately, independents are saddled with almost insurmountabley unfair regulations.
Not a chance in hell.
@@lindaamelung145don’t think politicians will help you. Time to co-op
@@lindaamelung145 Republicans will never regulate big business. Trump is for the free market and if your chicken nuggets cost more next year he will not care.
Haven't bought any Tyson products since the Chinese takeover
Me either, close to 15-20 years. The meat seemed over processed.
@vickieadams6648 it's made by the cheapest foriginers they can sneak in what do ya want
I was off it long before that ✅
@@blackredwhiteandblue1440Isnit a competirion?
Me either.
Ms. Mitrowski, You may not think of yourself as a Journalist, but your reporting would, make Pulitzer proud.! ! ! !
There should be no foreign involvement in any aspect of American agricture. Period, full stop.
Why? Should the US be allowed to export food? Not saying you’re wrong. Just wondering what your reasoning is.
@@solarwind907
Can't spell and your expecting an answer🤔
@@solarwind907 The usual reason to block foreign ownership is national security. I don't know why the US would have a Chinese company own the US's largest pork processor. Friendly countries should be allowed to operate smaller size facilities though IMO.
100 percent!!!
Google AI: No, Tyson Foods does not process chickens in China and ship them back to the United States. Tyson says that all of the chicken it sells in the U.S. is raised and processed in the U.S., and that it has no plans to raise or process chicken in China.
Tyson Foods does have an international supply chain that allows it to meet demand in nearly any market. In 2019, Tyson received approval to export American poultry to China from all of its U.S. processing plants.
I no longer buy Tyson, Smithfield or Wrights. I try to stay away from commercial brand names with meats and poultry and as much as possible. I try to buy local and from farms.
same and my health has improved
Smithfield farms is owned by the Chinese govt.
Jimmy Dean is Tyson also
@@genabargay4391 I did not know that! Thanks for the information!
I really miss my Wrights Bacon.
My favorite part about this video is you educating the kids, our current youth are cooked :(
I’m a former public school middle school teacher. How dare you teach children to think for themselves! (sarcasm hopefully noted). Thanks for pointing these facts out to all of us. USDA must unfetter our producers and allow for more opportunities to direct market to consumers or operate through co-ops. Big Food is not at all interested in its customers or suppliers. Hopefully, Joel Salatin can help move the needle away from corporate control. Every American should begin to produce even a little of their own food.
Theyre trying to change the whole food system and supply chain and shut farmers everywhere down. And change the monetary system to digital currency to be controlled by artificial intelligence
I already buy my dairy from a dairy that is 30 minutes from me, that is a family farm (NYS has many family farm dairies). I get my beef from a family member who buys beef from his neighbor, as well as getting eggs from that same family member. Only my mackerel I get from a company, and they are a managed fishery.
Fun fact the family farm dairies in NY are 75+ years old.
Farmers need to get together and open their own processing plants. Some of the beef ranchers were doing that.
The problem with that is the poultry industry doesn't operate like tge beef industry. The poultry farmers never actually own the chickens themselves. They provide the housing and labor, the poultry companies supply the chickens, feed, etc.
@ ugh why does that not surprise me.
You heard what they did in Germany right ?
Trump already screwed them over with his 1st tariff wars. They had to be bailed out.
My wife and I live rural and we buy 85 percent of our ag products from a local meat market that is all sourced locally. We have chickens for eggs and a half acre garden not to Mention a freezer full of deer meat. I think it's going to be people that live in the big cities that will have trouble getting what they need.
I live rural as well but people here heavily rely on going into town for food. Next to no one has so much as a few chickens and only a few have a (very small) garden. "It's too hard" "it's too much work" "I'm too busy" Excuses, excuses, excuses. No grit.
Oh, and of the neighbors' homes I've been in, only ONE has extra freezers. ALL the rest just have the standard kitchen fridge/freezer combo. And forget canning!! Pffffft, that's too much work!
Sigh.
@ I know it's hard working A half acre garden but the reward is the money my wife and I save . And what we don't use we give to family and friends . The same goes with the deer meat. We are in our mid 60's and draw our SS Benefits but I still work Occasionally.
@@katie7748hunger is a great motivator,fear is the greatest
Tyson was also replacing NYS workers with "New Arrivals" workers.
Changes coming to the availability on that. Is Tyson ducking out, seeing the writing on the wall?
Grow your own food, buy local. We need to go back to our old ways of doing things. We all be better for it!
Definitely 💯 fact
You people that want to go Back didn't live back then. Watch what you wish for
Diaper Donnie will save the world @@justaguy995
My town won't allow chickens.
It's too late no going back the dystopian future is on its way
That's interesting, thanks for that info.
Glad that these kids have a great teacher that takes time to explain this.
We are literally picking up equipment from the Kansas location being shut down that's going back to Iowa, today. Very sad situation for the workers as I'm from that area.
Is that from south Hutchinson?
@craigbucl7752 it was but I realized it was the Emporia Tyson and not S Hutch... but either way a sad deal
Katie, this was good information. I'm encouraged you are teaching.
Thank you. Keep going with exposing our food issues. New Subscriber.
Thank you for educating the younger generation using down to earth facts... good for you! Im trying to do the same with dairy
I don't want chicken that has a travel agent.
Good hope Tyson goes down. Have boycott Tyson 15+yrs. I'm sorry the people lost jobs but Tyson was making Blood money.
It seems they’re only hiring people who they import into the US (that we have to pay for). Sorry, The price of chicken is too high with THAT price tag.
Especially now that they're using children as labor forces
Exactly. There's a Tyson factory in Charleroi Pa that has vans bringing in Haitians and Venezuelans for work every day. They'll have to either close down or hire Americans once these people are sent back home. And they will be sent back home. @dawnclabaugh3598
The farmers should be Regenerative farming to naturally add carbon back into the soil, fertilizing the land as ruminant animals graze, breaking grass, activating homeostasis & producing oxygen. This is the opposite of inhuman, unsustainable, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly industrial agriculture out for profit & not for the health of humanity. These industrial companies like Tyson are getting our family owned farms shut down, paying off corrupt government officials to create unfair regulations that create environmental taxes because of the pollution caused by industrial farms.
Very interesting thank you for all your investigating and reporting to us so that we will have the knowledge to move forward
Really interesting and in line with another video I saw with cattle ranchers indicating similar moves from the beef processing industry. Seems like they are also doing it to keep prices artificially elevated.
Don't forget about the big corporate processing plants that are refusing independent cattle. Cattle not in possession of the large corporations are increasingly being ignored.
I really enjoyed this. Very informative. The states need to help farmers and processors become co-ops?
Sad to say free markets aren't what they use to be. And it's going to get very bad soon. Stay safe.
It's how they keep the prices high, cut production.
Corporation's don't care about farmers or Customers.... their only concerns are for Shareholders
You got that right. Thats what deregulation does, it lets corperations do what they wish.
@starsiegeRoks
Yes, and this will not change until
"citizens united" is repealed and corporate lobbying of congressional members is reigned in. As it is now, congressional constituents are not "we the people", they are "we the corporate elite".
The farmers should be Regenerative farming to naturally add carbon back into the soil, fertilizing the land as ruminant animals graze, breaking grass, activating homeostasis & producing oxygen. This is the opposite of inhuman, unsustainable, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly industrial agriculture out for profit & not for the health of humanity. These industrial companies like Tyson are getting our family owned farms shut down, paying off corrupt government officials to create unfair regulations that create environmental taxes because of the pollution caused by industrial farms.
Thank you for the info! As a retired science teacher and now an owner of a 10 acre ranch of meat goats (Kikos) and a dozen chickens, I agree that we all need to do something to supply even a little bit of our own food. I've had chickens for eggs for yrs, but hope this spring to start hatching some of my eggs for meat - got a very nice incubator at a reasonable price. (All of my chickens are duel purpose breeds.) I'm going to hit that subscribe button!
You should add in a few goats for milk. It's a huge bonus without the maintenance of a cow.
@BrianM-44041 I've got carpal tunnel in my wrists (lose of hand strength). I don't think I would be able to handle milking, plus , if this year has been what I have to look forward to, I've spent too much time at various doctors! You know it's bad when all the receptionists know your name as you walk into the office!
@monicaluketich6913 I feel that. I have arthritis and carpal tunnel too and I'm only 52. Have the old man do the milking lol. JK I get it, a balance of what's best and what's doable is what we have to work with. For me the worst part would be getting low enough to milk anything. Lol they have single animal milking machines but again you have to hook them up and get the beast to stay still long enough. Maybe you're better off just buying milk. Goat milk tastes odd at first anyway. Best of luck, may your carpal tunnel hurt less. 🙏
Just found your channel, subbed immediately. I would be understatedly proud to have you as a teacher for my children,
Thank you .
My brother use to haul chicken, his dispatcher said chicken does go to China and come back, scary.
Really?
Wonder what China injects into the chicken??
😂😂 scary and crazy 😧
That doesn’t make any sense.
@AmyThrash There's a lot in our food system that doesn't make sense. I live in an area that produces much of the nation's apples, cherries, etc., but you know where our local warehouses ship the very best fruit? Asia - esp. Japan, because that's where the money is, and then the apples WE get - even though we're surrounded by orchards - come from out of state. I go to the farmer's market for local produce + eggs, or sign up for their CSA. It isn't cheap, but I want to support local farmers.
Teaching your students about our food systems is amazing. They are learning to think for themselves.
You have a beautiful soul Katie
I have time I'll come back, show you the real rabbit hole, there is no bottom.
You're helping to grow and develop Young minds. With real information.
That's what life is about
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I used to hate being called a conspiracy theorist.
But now I just give them a smirk, I mean smile 😬
"There is no bottom"
Ain't that the sad, scary truth :-/
That non compete agreement would have a hard time standing up in court with a competent lawyer and the local farmers getting together and trying to buy the facility, or start a sort of Co-op of their own. Non competes are just like NDA's, not worth the paper their printed on unless the person, or business that had them signed can prove they have been hurt financially etc. As long as it's not nefarious illegal activity, it's just a piece of paper. At least that's what I have told for over 40 yrs. Not a legal expert, just my experience.
Tyson bought out a local family owned large processor in my state a few years ago. The price of chicken has gone up about 40% since the buy out. Monopolies are greedy. They have power and they use it.
This is what we get for selling out. The love of money ruins us all. Love thy neighbor
I can't think of any pollutant that is more toxic to the soul, than greed.
In your class, do you cover why all our food labels say “distributed by” vs made in the USA?
We do discuss country of origin labeling- may be up for the ag fact for next week!
@AgWithKatieM Yes please "DO" an explanation of origin of manufacturing......ext. This NEEDS TO BE TAKEN UP BY OUR CONGRESS.... There's supposedly a law that Obama passed very secretly passed about any backyard gardens belonged to the Government !!!! Whats with this ??? Don't remember the bill #...
“Distributed By” means just that, who distributed the finished goods.
Country of Origin identity is required for the raw ingredients that went into making the finished goods and is listed on the ingredient specification. These specs are held by the manufacturer/supplier for regulatory purposes.
It’s impractical/costly to list the country of origin on packaging for every ingredient that went into the food.
Good job! Teach the kids about this they need to understand what’s happening.
Thank you!!
great job Katie! Showing the students the entire food production, processing and marketing chain is very important. Food safety, security , affordability and availability are the challenges of the future.
Your students may not run poultry farms but they'll know how to research the issues of the day. You're doing them, and all of us, a great service.
Thank you!
THE INCOMING ADMINISTRATION HAD BETTER ADDRESS FOREIGN INVOLVEMENT IN OUR FOOD CHAIN. SAFETY, SECURITY & FINANCIAL CONSEQUENCES!
Oligarchs looking for ways to steal taxes paid to the government. Taking care of the food supply and citizens? They do not care.
They won’t. It wouldn’t matter who is in office. The corporations donate to the legislatures. They won’t bite the hand that feeds them.
Thank you.
We are having the same problem down here in New Zealand.
Dairy is worth more $$$ then growing sheep & cattle hence less animals for processing to much competition for the available animals so they have to pay the farmer more $$$ so they have reached agreements with each other not to cross defined borders & they are throwing their workers into redundancy by closing meat works it's cheaper to truck animals for miles & hours
Katie, what is the process when an agency says your chickens need culled. Killed on spot? Taken somewhere? How are the animals tested to prove needing culled?
Asking from experience? I can do a fact on that... but I don't want to get booted for being too descriptive 🤣
@@AgWithKatieMitrowski Would appreciate knowing who is testing 'the testers' because the level of trust is ZERO.
My fact for today discusses avian influenza and the depopulation of flocks
@@AgWithKatieMitrowskiI'm guessing they end up unalived lol
The same “inflation/monopoly” happened recently in the chlorine industry. Olin bought several chlorine manufacturers facilities. Immediately shut down two of them. Said one was beyond repair, the second would be down 3-5 years for repairs. They then throttled down production, on the remaining facilities they bought.
Four years ago, chlorine gas, was being bought for $.29/#. We are now back down to $1.01/#. It peaked at $1.12/#. We use 50#’s a day. Potable water treatment.
Same thing with R134a refrigerant for car a/c systems.
It's cheap and relatively easy to produce your own chicken. We do one or two batches of chicks each year and produce all our chicken(TBH we do buy extra wings to have wing nights). The space needed in minimal. We have a chicken tractor that is 10 years old and still functional, our birds live outside in the sun and on green grass. We can process 25 birds in a morning and we lend out our plucker to friends. We do live in the country but I think most people do not want to get their hands dirty or really know where their meat comes from. I have never eaten a chicken nugget and we refer to them as beaks and feet.
ISN'T IT AGAINST THE LAW IN USA TO HAVE A CONGLOMERATE JUST BECAUSE OF THIS EXACT REASON !!!???
Don't worry. The doge guy will remove all the regulations...
@@moggadah Spoken like an Idiotic liberal...keep the stereotype ALIVE...😉👌
I think the reason for the laws is to have adequate competition, NOT guard against the adverse effects of a shutdown, but I could be wrong.
Thanks a lot for your work. I’ve been trying to buy more locally produced food in general. I’ll start paying attention to the source of my chicken from now on, thanks to you :-)
I think it’s great that you’re a teacher because teaching kids critical thinking skills is really important. If you have the time, tell them how you researched the information you’re giving them. The thought process and key strokes you go through are important lessons as well as the subject matter they produce.
Sincere, thanks and all the best to you.
Create shortage drive price up, corporate greed.
Sounds like at least six reasons to boycott Tysons.
Name them shame them and…
Haven't bought Tyson for years will never buy Tyson nothing with the Tyson name on it
Subscribed! Glad to have found your channel 🙂
Been buying local for 25 years now.
bravo
We have a big local poultry industry and the stores are big on carrying local foods. I could probably buy chicken right from a farmer / small abattoir If I wanted. Some people do not have local poultry.
These big companies don't care about their workers. Less plants means they have fewer workers to provide wages to and less overhead. It's all about profits.
Real good information. Good work, lady
We need to start sending all of this information to the new incoming administration.
This has been going on in all industry in this country for more than 10 years . This is major reason for inflation . To increase profits corporations are limiting supply to raise prices . More profit less cost . Saw it happening in 2017 in the processed potato industry in north America
Good information young lady… real news is greatly appreciated.
Thank you. Subbed.
THIS IS CORRUPTION AT A WHOLE NEW LEVEL !!!. THANK YOU !!!.
Not really new. It has been happening for a long time. We, the public, are just learning about it.
The farmers should be Regenerative farming to naturally add carbon back into the soil, fertilizing the land as ruminant animals graze, breaking grass, activating homeostasis & producing oxygen. This is the opposite of inhuman, unsustainable, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly industrial agriculture out for profit & not for the health of humanity. These industrial companies like Tyson are getting our family owned farms shut down, paying off corrupt government officials to create unfair regulations that create environmental taxes because of the pollution caused by industrial farms.
Thank you 👍
Thank you
this is the best news ever!
create local food supplies!
Came across your channel and subscribed.Whether you raise your on food or not, this is information that affects everybody
It's misinformation. George Bush approved importing our chickens, processing them and sending them back in 2006. But you won't Google it because you don't want the truth.
I quit buying Tyson brand completely in 2021. The flavor, texture and color were changed. We now raise and butcher our own chickens, turkeys, pork and beef -- and they are all raised close confinement free (Free Range) on organic grasses and weeds.
I don’t buy any Tyson products.
I buy from local farmers! Product so much better. Im happier knowing where my food came from, how it was grown and processed. I can stop at my local farmers place anytime and actually see the process myself!
Fantastic!
❤❤ from Canada!
Trident Seafoods is sending their Alaskan Salmon to be processed in China and then sent back to the US to be sold here. No wonder there are so many food recalls.
Makes you wonder if Joe Biden has any involvement with the China kooks, or gooks.
I witnessed the changeover of small chicken farms in east Oklahoma in 2022.
Many small family farms had brand new barns put up and a Tyson sign out front. It was astonishing how many sold out. This is how they take over an industry, just like pork.
People need to stop selling to corporate entities. If a corporation wants to buy it, a smaller local USA investor would pay the same price. Value is value. We do have investors that believe in American agriculture, but they are not at the top of the "food chain", look a few steps down the ladder.
Thanks for the info.
Wow, what a real teacher looks likes!!!!
💕🇺🇸 thanks for the update 😊
I buy from a local regenerative ranch.
I pray that the USDA has the collartel to get the legislators and FCC to have Tyson pay off all the loans of the barns that farmers built to service the now closed plants.
And I pray that you never discover how much money Tyson has spent on golf and lodging fees alone for USDA personnel.
Brilliant feed Katie 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
This is so important, people need to know this information.
It is so hard to find Ag info. Thank you for this.
Great content. Thanks for posting.
This information is so important. I wish all kids had an ag class.
Well let's face it, Tyson chicken sux !!!
I knew of the China deal n couldn't believe it!
China is not buying from America. There is over-capacity in America. Instead of competition to lower the price. It makes more money to close down processing capacity. With so few in the game, easy to coordinate. We all make more money this way. The consumer they are the food for the rich and wealthy.
They need to pass the prime act that is stuck in the main farm bill. State inspected processing needs to be allowed again so thousands of small independent farmers can solve these food security issues with corporate ag that own all the usda plants.
They want to import and make more money. jbs is spending 2.5B to build 6 plants in Nigeria
15.00 dollars a hour or a week.
Knowledge is power!
How could it possibly be less expensive to ship all of that chicken and pork around the world? Sell the farm to your spouse or kids, then the non compete is gone
That is the fourth plant not related to Tyson in the US and overnight I am so disgusted right now
They will try to stifle anyone that competes. Google the Tyson brands and BOYCOTT!!!
The farmers should be Regenerative farming to naturally add carbon back into the soil, fertilizing the land as ruminant animals graze, breaking grass, activating homeostasis & producing oxygen. This is the opposite of inhuman, unsustainable, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly industrial agriculture out for profit & not for the health of humanity. These industrial companies like Tyson are getting our family owned farms shut down, paying off corrupt government officials to create unfair regulations that create environmental taxes because of the pollution caused by industrial farms.
Thank you Thank You THANK YOU
Shutting that plant down does only effect the Tyson employees it also effects the growers and their enployees.
Coops are looking good right now. I thought this would eventually happen. With less regularion the product from china will probably be called US product. Gotta boycott this stuff but it is probably going to be in fast food. Countries need to keep their food production
We’re closing down at the end of the year……yall have a nice Christmas…..😳
Where are you at? I am so sorry to hear that- do you have other opportunities open?
That was more of a commentary on the attitude of these industries that treat their employees with what I call “casual distain”. I’m a 70 year old engineer who works in the computer industry but I’ve been around long enough to understand the hardships that this causes. BTY I live in Newport News Virginia so I’m real close to Smithfield Processing plant. We also have Tyson and Perdue plants within about 100 miles. I always enjoy listening to sane, rational people who care about others. The worst among us seem to have the loudest voices and the lowest IQ’s.
The farmers should be Regenerative farming to naturally add carbon back into the soil, fertilizing the land as ruminant animals graze, breaking grass, activating homeostasis & producing oxygen. This is the opposite of inhuman, unsustainable, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly industrial agriculture out for profit & not for the health of humanity. These industrial companies like Tyson are getting our family owned farms shut down, paying off corrupt government officials to create unfair regulations that create environmental taxes because of the pollution caused by industrial farms.
20yrs ago...i tried to say things at the MN conventions about needing mobile processing units for the "little " farms.
Nice job, just stumbled on your video !
Tyson is going to jack up prices.
2013 is when the us made that agreement. 11 years ago according to the usda.
They can go home n talk to family n they might get smart n raise them on their own.... Well people keep selling out to garbage politicians n never stand tfu n fight
New subscriber loved this ❤
Me too. Her teaching and communication skills are off the scale of impressivness.
Furthermore, her students are understatedly fortunate to have such a life long inspiration.
There are full page ad's in the local paper specific to farmers/rancher's to reach out for mental health help. They talk about the veterans rates of self annihilation but not the high rates of Farmers and Rancher's. It's an epidemic. 💜
No more Tyson food purchases!
I just watched this on Dark Brandon. Nice to see the actual source instead.
...l have 2 farms l raise/grow my own...stay strong just subscribed...
Hopefully RFK can shut this shit down quick
Now we're going to have tariffs that's going to make our food costs rise even more.
Buy local
You really don't understand our country was great when we were self sufficient
@@gordonplatter9162 We were self sufficient because we had small farms, local businesses, and family businesses that people supported. That ended in the 80s when large corporations started taking over family farms, Walmart drove out mom and pop businesses, etc. Can we get back to those days? Only if we can get corporations out of politics and give people a chance to compete on a small scale.
no that drives the business back home; stop listening to MSM they are lying to you
@@thisorthat762680's My ASS..I live in central Florida & Wally World didn't arrive here till the 90's... And I have a great memory