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How a Brazilian Beef Cartel ate your steak


               
2026 Jan 23, 10:35am   56 views  2 comments

by TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter   follow (9)  

Once upon a time, you paid fifty bucks for a steak only if your waiter wore a tux. Now you pay it under fluorescent lights at the supermarket.

That’s not inflation. That’s a Brazilian beef cartel squeezing American families. Here’s the part no one ever explains:

Beef prices aren’t set on the ranch. They’re set in the slaughterhouse — the place where cattle are turned into the burgers and steaks you buy at the store. Control that step, and you control the price. Period.

And right now, America’s slaughterhouses are controlled by a foreign-dominated cartel tied to Brazil.

The United States has over half a million cattle ranches. But almost all of their cattle must pass through a tiny number of meatpacking plants before reaching your plate. Just four companies control about 85% of U.S. beef processing — and two of them, JBS and National Beef, are effectively controlled from Brazil.

That’s not competition. That’s a choke point.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4428550/inflation-didnt-eat-your-steak-a-cartel-did/

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1   RWSGFY   2026 Jan 23, 10:39am  

Donnie is asleep at the switch.
2   TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter   2026 Jan 23, 2:11pm  

He's fine, and this predates Trump 2.

When he takes action, all the same Establishment Republicans and RINOs mocking him for not doing anything will start screaming that Brazilian Cartels are the free markets at work, and that Trump is a fascist socialist.

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