Earlier today, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, and Director of Trade and Manufacturing Peter Navarro held a press conference on antitrust investigations and meatpacking operations.
AAG Todd Blanche noted the DOJ is seeking information from whistleblowers inside the meat industry as they investigate price controls and price fixing from multinational agriculture conglomerates.
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department confirmed its active investigation of potential antitrust violations in U.S. cattle and beef markets, reviewing more than 3 million documents and interviewing industry participants as federal officials scrutinize whether highly concentrated meatpacking power has contributed to high beef prices.
The four largest beef processors control more than 85% of the U.S. processing market — half of which are Brazilian-owned — Trump administration officials noted at a Monday news conference, where acting Attorney General Todd Blanche urged whistleblowers to capitalize on turning in bad actors who are contributing to jacking up meat prices on Americans.
“If the information you provide helps us secure a criminal penalty in excess of $1 million, you can be entitled to recover and receive 15-30% of the money that we recover,” Blanche said, describing the DOJ fraud whistleblower rewards program. He urged ranchers, purchasers, processors and others to report possible price-fixing, bid-rigging, market allocation or procurement fraud.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins tied the probe to broader concerns about food security and shrinking domestic cattle supplies, saying the U.S. had about 86.2 million head of cattle and calves as of Jan. 1 — “the lowest since the 1950s.” (read more)
Democrat and global leftists spent decade shouting about cows and cattle as a major source of global warming via flatulence. Being anti-cows, anti-milk, anti-beef, and anti-ranching became a major focus of the global ‘Build Back Better’ net-zero emission agenda.
Cattle ranching and dairy farming were viewed as easy targets for investment controls, while Bill Gates and the climate groups promoted nut milks, soy milks, milk alternatives, bugs, crickets and fake meat. This activity is part of the current consequences.
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!
Chamber is right up there with SPLC. Except worse.
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.
I would look for places like this https://chenoalocker.com/ in your state. I drive 1 hour to get there but it’s worth it.
I buy from an organic, regenerative farm in Indiana. Is it expensive? Yes. Is it worth it to me? Absolutely! The animals are treated so much better during their lives and the quality of the meat and poultry are outstanding.
http://www.sevensons.net
is it just me or has Todd Blanche done more in ONE month than Blondie did in one year, plus change?
Yes, indeed he has!! I’m really starting to like this Todd Blanche !!!
Yep, a LOT of Wasted & Lost Opportunities during that first year. Hopefully Mr. Blanche will more than make up for it over the next 2 1/2 years.
Unfortunately an Acting AG can only serve 7 months. Since Blanche is a former attorney serving President Trump he probably can’t get pass the RINO Senate confirmation process. But he can return to his # 2 spot in DOJ.
Nope, not just you. There’s been an obvious & welcomed uptick in productivity & a lot being thrown at the wall. Let’s hope most, if not all of it sticks!
Funny i swear you took the words right out of my mouth and yes you are right he has hope he keeps up the pace have a great night Vikingmom
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.
Ha, rib-I see what you did there!
I’ve raised beef. Cost me $0.48 lb cut and double wrap. Hang weight avg. 800#
Calves went from $350.00 8 years ago to $1200 now. Angus / Holstein mix.
Cost of feed is outrageous now. We used to be able to raise beef for a little over $1.25 lb.
Great info, almost a 400% price increase, something’s definitely wrong!
Excellent!
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.
Blanche has 210 days that can be extended for additional 210 day periods if the nominated AG fails confirmation or is pending confirmation.
What if Bondi was chosen to create a false sense of security?
“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.
Not the owner of Wynkoop Brewing by chance? 😉
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.