Peter Navarro is the real deal. You don’t want to mess with him.

Americans should be free to buy beef and milk from local ranchers without the approval of the behemoth in DC. We are strangled to death from regulations and restrictions imposed by that out of control monster!

It’s about time this is being done. Something went intentionally awry with the meat industry during ‘Autopens’ administration with BBB & should’ve self corrected, not unlike egg prices, once MAGA took things back yet it hasn’t. Their is some international intervention & manipulation occurring (China & Brazil, maybe Mexico), however there’s something else domestically in play that is manufacturing skewed pricing & supply. This may end up being more sinister than we think. Would not be surprised to find the Chamber of Commerce involved!

We purchase 1/2 cow at a time. Fills a standup freezer 100%. It’s local and they even gifted me chicken once. I had no idea chicken could taste that good. Light breading and pan fried became flaky goodness.

is it just me or has Todd Blanche done more in ONE month than Blondie did in one year, plus change?

There are millions at steak……

Mandated processing fees if you attempt to avoid the big meat packers. Must be usda approved.

Fix the requirement to sell local must be an approved and usda inspected (read big business chokehold) since way, way back.

Big packers kill local using government inspections as the excuse.

Stupid rules, stupid regulations.

Muslims (as workers) have infiltrated and taken over abattoirs all over the world and certify and pray over and certify as halal all our meat except pork for a fee.

I want bill gates in leg irons like 1000 hours ago

So sick of that pedo and his death cult mind

He really deserves to suffer a horrendous fate

Pam Bondi served a big purpose. The acting AG doesn’t need Senate approval. The Uniparty was very happy with Bondi. Maybe her role was to be a do nothing part time Fox employee while the rest of the DOJ put together all of these cases. Once the DOJ had enough important cases to act on, Bondi was replaced with Blanche. Genius if its what was actually planned and executed.

“the climate groups promoted nut milks, soy milks, milk alternatives, bugs, crickets and fake meat.”

This brings bad memories of where I lived in Colorado, the BLM cattle grazing leases, and the leftist Denver lawyers behind the whole operation.

Colorado has extensive cattle grazing leases on federal BLM land, which comes with rules of how that land is managed for grazing cattle, right down to how many cow/calf pairs can be grazed on each lease and for how many days. For the first few years where I lived, the cattle, about 15 cows, would be brought into the valley around the end of October, and free range graze until the end of December. Every cattle rancher in the state will tell you Colorado is a fence out state, which means if you want free range cattle kept off your property, it was your requirement to build and maintain fences to keep them off. No problem. My property was fenced. So from October through December, every time we drove off our property it was through the gate we took down and put up once through since we didn’t have the cattle guard. Again, no problem because the rancher was providing food and I like steak. If any cows did get into property, mine or the neighbors, the rancher was quick to come and remove them and drive them to higher ground.

It all changed about 4 years before I sold my ranch.

I came home from work one day, and had to drive slowly through the new herd of 250 to 300 cows that were all over the free range road, roadside, neighbors property, everywhere. They were breaking down fences and going everywhere they could to get food or water.
Each year after it got worse. The cows were all over the road more often and longer, more neighbors were overrun. One neighbor crashed into a cow at night not seeing the black cow on the side of the road. Another neighbor had their wooden fence broken down in several places, with cows all over the hay field and right up to laying down in his front lawn. One day I came home and found they broke through my fence and I had around 200 in my back yard breaking through other fences to get to whatever water they could and spooked the horses.

Calls to the BLM were often met with excuses, and maybe in a few days some Mexican cowboys would show up and might drive them out, cutting whatever fences they wanted to get the cattle to higher ground. The sheriff at one point had interaction with the cowboys and said none spoke English, and none had a drivers license, yet he let them all go.

After calling and raising hell with the BLM about properly managing the grazing leases they were letting, I dug into the leases and found out who the “rancher” was. It was no longer some western Colorado rancher who had been in the business for years and managed his grazing leases properly. It was a group of 3 leftist lawyers and others from Denver. They had about 8 different grazing lease operations all over western Colorado, each one operating each leasing operation under a slightly different LLC.

They checked off all the right leftist “sustainable” checkboxes in Denver, were part of all the right circles and owned a couple restaurants bragging about their humanely raised, grass fed beef.

Reality was vastly different. Cows raised on eating sage brush without access to water.

I often wonder how many ranchers have been driven out of business because of politically connected hacks like those who ignored any rules for grazing with the BLM doing nothing about it because they had the right political friends.

Go after the illegals in the meat packing plants while you are at it.

When I first heard Gates was involved with food, I changed every habit I had in buying food, although I already was changing my food buying. Grow a garden every year and we can, found a places to get meats locally and we buy 50lb bags of flour to bake bread and all the rest. Plus, we found a place that delivers to what they call ‘drop’ or delivery point, my is a mile and half down the road. You can buy more than everything from them and you could buy in bulk, pallets of food if you choose too, from baby food to 50lb bags of flour and rice. You may want to check them out, Azure Standard – Azure Standard

We no longer go to supermarkets.

Part of the problem with all this is “…the four largest meat processors control 85% of the US processing market…”

Bigger is better if you are one of the big’uns. Everyone else is s-o-l.

Welcome aboard..
The late Derry Brownfield (and his AM radio show) were all over this 25 years ago.

It’s about time. I remember meat prices skyrocketing during the young Bush regimen and it was so called caused by the demand for meat during the Mideast war. I knew it was BS and watched for the next 20 years as they remained the same.

He-double hockey sticks on any foreign country controlling 1% of any country’s food supply, much less 50%. This is a major national security issue.

How much of Rio de Janeiro does the USA own?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ETxuDhriI1k

I have wondered if Secr Brook Rollins would actually DO anything about beef and chicken prices. From the beginning I had read that she was pro big meat multinationals and the big meat processesors. I’m guessing this is more from Peter Navarro taking the lead on this and forcing the issue and dragging Rollins along.

That said, I ordered ground beef from a Wyoming rancher (Meriwether Farms) and was supper happy with the product. It’s like getting the ground beef I grew up on. The beef is actually red/red juices when thawed. It ended up not being so expensive since I waited for “deal” to come along for 30 lbs of one lb bags. It’s still more expensive than it was prior to the Biden regime. We do have local beef and chicken farmers who sell at the farmers market and onsite but everything is frozen. It would be nice to buy quality beef and chicken without it always being frozen.

Competition among producers makes the consumer king. Not enough competition makes consumers serfs.

Libs won’t be happy til we’re all eating cockroaches of which their policies produce many…Not for them of course, just us little people….They’ll still be chomping down on prime beef.

There has been some online discussion questioning Todd Blanche, considering he was a Democrat until fairly recently, as well as coming from a NY ‘white shoe’ law firm. That being said, since Pam Bondi’s departure, he certainly has put the pedal to the metal with regard to some of these investigations. Impressive.

Listening to Wolverine Peter Navarro made me feel good. Reform and Change are coming. The bad guys are going to get what they deserve. WOLVERINES

Most beef in U.S. stores comes from South America unless you buy directly from a Rancher or rural farmer meat market.
When was the last time you have seen the blue USDA stamp on beef ?
The American Beef producers will follow the Dinosaur if the globalist climate freaks have their way.

We buy our beef and dairy from local farms. Its real, fresh and delicious. AND I know where it comes from and how the animals are raised.

Well done, Team Trump!

And the four big meat processors are all foreign owned. An equally important driver of the high consumer prices and cause of small cattle producers and processors disappearing are the onerous regulation imposed on them by CONgress. Get rid of the ridiculous regulatory environment so small, independent ranchers and processors can thrive again and we will all win, except China.

I believe that Rollins also addressed the strangling effect the EPA and ESA had on ranchers and farmers. ESA would claim that some endangered rodent was spotted on a farmers or ranchers land and would immediately take away hundreds of acres, which often included watering holes that the rancher/farmer could use to raise cattle on. The EPA would follow up with saying that some puddle was actually a water source and would not allow the rancher farmer to use that land. They tied up the land and the water that the Rancher/ farmer used to grow hay on in order to feed their herds. Quite the racket to get rid of those gassy old cows and send beef prices up.

This is awesome news.

If this investigation actually sees the light of day, and there are anti-trust cases won, it will be a first step in decoupling the worlds economy from the globalist, who have set the prices for most every commodity and produce per country’s “ability to pay”.

Maybe now we can get some real price relief and real market pricing, instead of the fixed crony capitalist markets we’ve had to endure since before NAFTA was implemented….

Anti trust is like whack a mole. Always late to the story. Horses left the barn already.
Treble damages is supposed to be the deterrent. But they always settle before those kick in.
The cases are MONSTERS to file, and mostly politically driven. Some administrations will do nothing on anything.
But even when they do, its scattershot when the problem is everywhere.
Scale, first mover effects, network dynamics, startup risks, …. they all reward those seizing the opportunity to consolidate.

I am simply grateful that we have a team of people in the government willing an able to finally address the food producing conglomerates that have not only controlled processing and prices, but have caused small farms to go by the wayside. I have watched this my whole life, have sought buying local and have been made into a criminal for buying fresh milk from my neighbor. A return to local production and processing will breed trust in producers to provide the best and place accountability into local hands. As well as create competition that will inevitably lower prices.

I have always organically raised, grown my own food. It has been a labor of love involving far less commercial needs, as in insecticides, herbicides, refinery fertilizers, modified seeds and whatever big producers use to produce commercially. All of these products have proven to poison crops for consumption and deplete soil nutrition. As well as increase costs. Yet the cost at the supermarket is far less than the cost of buying organic produce. That is the conundrum that twists neurons in the brain as we try to make sense of it when my cost to grow organic are minimal and the food I grow for my family is totally nutritious. Commercially grown produce may look pretty, can be provided for huge market value, but has very little nutrient value.

I switched to buying from a local rancher about 15 years ago, then about 6 years ago, I started raising my own. Zero GMOs, zero antibiotics, zero vaccines, on fresh non-sprayed pastures and grass hay. The local abattoir (small custom slaughterhouse) is not required to follow USDA guidelines or put up with their interference. The only time I would need USDA certification is IF I was selling pre-packaged meat to the public. And I’m not. My family grows meat for the family and that’s it.

Around these parts you can sell 1/4, 1/2, or whole beef shares to a “customer”, and then that customer pays the slaughterhouse for processing, again avoiding USDA inspections. The key is to know your farmer and know where your food comes from.

What I will tell you is that I’d much rather work with a wonderful, dedicated, local family who slaughters and has a good reputation, than buy supposedly USDA inspected meat from a grocery store. From beginning to end, I know what that animal’s inputs have been. That animal is never abused, or crowded, or mistreated. It has only a split second of a bad day on butcher day. It never suffers. I don’t have to worry about meat from another country or what that animal has been fed.

I understand the reasons for USDA inspection, but I think it’s more of a rubber stamp for the big meat packers, who were jacking up prices for money that the rancher never saw. I’m sure if you’ve ever driven past a cattle feedlot, you would remember the smell. It’s horrific. Anyway, that’s a whole other conversation and I won’t win that one. I can only determine what is right for my family. If you can’t raise your own, find yourself a good, local, rancher or farmer you can partner with.

I hope this Administration can break up the meat packer monopoly in order to make things fairer for the big ranchers, and at the end of that line, for regular people. It’s the same song in the chicken industry, but one thing at a time.

This is great news, even if it is long overdue. The US should never let foreign countries – especially ones that are hostile to us, like the chicoms and the current Brazilian regime – control things in our food, drug or energy supply chains.

Also, to help reduce the cost of meat for the consumer, Trump should get behind the PRIME Act and urge our do nothing Congress to pass it. Yes, it was championed by Massie who can be an a-hole most of the time, but he’s also right about a lot of stuff.

First place I would start is with the ranchers. They will have tales to tell on how every part of their industry has been impacted by useless regulations and low-balling cattle purchasers.

I’ve never understood why the price of veal is higher than regular beef. A full grown cow costs more to feed and house and ship so if sent to market with less cost, why isn’t the veal purchase price for consumers cheaper?

So as not to look like hypocrites, I would urge the Trump administration, especially the Department of Interior under Doug Burgum, to remove the beam from its own eye before attending to the mote in its brother’s eye.

https://www.ptreyeslight.com/news/deal-near-to-end-point-reyes-ranching/

“All the dairies and most of the ranches in the Point Reyes National Seashore are set to shut down following a multi-million-dollar settlement announced on Wednesday. 
The landmark agreement was reached between ranchers, the National Park Service and The Nature Conservancy, which is underwriting a plan to buy out farm leases and end agriculture in the park. Ranchers will receive a share of an estimated $40-million settlement fund in exchange for relinquishing their multi-generational operations that predate the 63-year-old park.
According to a source close to the negotiations, the settlement includes nondisclosure and non-disparagement agreements, ensuring the public won’t immediately know the fine print of the deal. 
The Nature Conservancy, the world’s largest environmental organization, joined …”

Part of the problem with the size of the herds is also feed. When the fires hit Texas a few years ago it destroyed the pasture land there, herds were having to be culled just to make sure they did not die of starvation. I read many stories of ranchers giving everything they had left to their herds, buying hay from places far distant just to feed their herds. it really hit me hard that they gave so much for their herds and still lost most of them. Cull the weakest to save the strongest.

I thought I was sensitive to wheat, I am not its the poison glyphosate they put on it at harvest.
I thought I was sensitive to dairy, I am not it turns out they put chemicals in that too.

I can eat both with abandon when I vacation in Europe with no ill effects.

Its criminal.