How Tyson Captured All The Pork You Eat (And Made Billions)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Iowa has lost 90% of its family farms in the past 40 years - 40,000 total farms, gone.
But hog industry profits have tripled.
All that profit just goes to 3 companies that now dominate every aspect of the pork industry.
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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.
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@@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?
"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
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'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
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.
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.
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.
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…
0:20 love that hog scratching itself
I get the same Itch.
In the same spot
I never buy that brand - never will.
Unfortunately it's really hard to avoid, given how many brands they own and how much of their meat is used in other products.
Smithfield is a huge pork "producer" owned by China.
We are so screw!
I don’t buy it either!
Just learned Aidells is owned by Tyson. 😮
@@BettieBoonot that we know of, right . Awful
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...
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 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
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.
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.
Pigs are so intelligent they make good pets
They're also clean animals. 🐖🐖 🐓
Their also quite tasty when cooked right
@@jonathanjones3126colon rectal cancer.
@@jonathanjones3126people are also tasty
They are highly intelligent, but their smell is too strong to be pets. You don't want one in the house.
I have recently moved from Hawaii to Iowa, and live just outside of town we're there is a tysons plant. Thinks makes me remember when I first came to check out the area before moving two years ago that the tyson town had a problem with the carp fish dying in its lake. They said on the news that it was from herpes. So know after watching this. I know now to never fish in the lake in that town. You have a new subscriber. Thanks for your well put together video.
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.
That's horrible. We all need to support our local farmers. It's because of the farmers we have good food.
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 😂
Local farmers rule! i buy all my meats, vegg, breads and fruits at our local farmers market. twice a week. i dont care that its a few dollars more than the supermarket prices. its fresh! top quality! and goes straight to the farmers. Amen 🌺🙏😃
Our farmers deserve far better than they are getting. They are the providers of life and nourishment.
Rural voters bought into the Libertarian Right's talking points. In reality, government exists to defend the interests of The People against corporate greed. Anti-trust laws are key.
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We need to share this everywhere
Once, i was on a trip and stopped off in Iowa. I don't want to sound condescending, but the worst water i ever tasted was in Iowa, that was about 15 years ago.
What a vain waste of words.. Pure vanity..
No, he's right. I lived in northern Iowa as a kid and the city water was horrible. It was sourced from a heavily polluted lake and I doubt they were able to get all the impurities out.
We had a well that tasted better, but you had to go out and manually pump it.
We ended up mainly drinking pop or milk.
@@JonathanDiggsDukeActually, your pointless, snotty comment was much more of a vanity.
Is that even your real name? What a pretentious jagoff. As if anyone cares what your name is.
I once heard the hog buildings were called Stink Factories.
Remember folks, your entire purpose as a human being is to generate as much wealth for corporations as possible. If you aren't doing that, you are not a viable human being.
"Own every part of the chicken supply chain" - Monopoly much?
That's capitalism...capitalism is a machine, it must consume in order to grow. For decades, there was plenty for it to consume without destroying lives and the environment...but eventually, continued growth required inhumane, unhealthy and unethical methods. Money makes laws, so the government allows bad practices that harm because it makes $.
That's such a good explanation.
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We need more this
Go and pick out even one capitalist economy in 2024 - there isn't a single one on the planet.
Socialism is a lot worse.
Nothing good grows exponentially forever... isn't it fully grown by now? Isn't it time to sustain, instead of expecting more growth?
You're conflating capitalism with corporatism. Capitalism has helped get the world to a point where if starvation exists it only does so intentionally, by 'warlords' and the like. Capitalism has allowed for the lowest levels of abject poverty ever known in human history. Capitalism has enabled human flourishing to a degree well past the level many thought would essentially end humanity just a few short decades ago. Capitalism is responsible for innumerable improvements in the daily lives of people all over the globe. Capitalism is not the whipping post you're looking for. The corruption of capitalism into corporatism and lobbying are.
Dang, I see the ruse a mile away. Tyson finances farmers the building, then contracts the end-product at a fixed price - it's like slavery, only more steps.
I'm doing the same thing...screw the Chinese owned pork...USA made and raised here!!!
Capitalism. Working as intended.....
Tyson started to get known in my country Malaysia a few years ago. I knew there is something unethical about this company. Also worried about local chicken farmers too
Take the breading off of one of Tysons chicken fingers and be greeted with a log of pressed meat. Yep, great stuff
I don’t buy meat from the grocery store. Period. It’s not hard
keep voting republican, no regulations, plenty of monopoly.
That me guess it also a racist thing, too?
Both party are to blame
Coming from someone who rarely eats pork: This is capitalism. We need Tyson’s efficiency. There is nothing wrong with the efficiency. Farmers can get other jobs or keep the same ones and sell their hogs at a premium for being more sustainably and ethically raised. The problem is Tyson needs to clean their sh!t up! They need to be held responsible for keeping the local watersheds clean. If animal welfare is an issue, and I don’t think that was well-addressed in this video, they need to be held responsible as well. Monopoly exploitation also may need addressing, but efficiency is not the enemy, it is a necessity.
Meanwhile Tyson CFO: th-cam.com/video/aF3p-jqaDIQ/w-d-xo.html
I thought I heard that a Chinese company owns Tyson foods now.
Regenerative agriculture
Now i understand why people say boycott tysoon even more.
So, Tyson is basically the Monsanto of the meat industry, I am not a fan of C.A.F.O.'s, or industrial farming and agriculture, the way Ron's farm is set up, and that mindset of animals on pasture, and being outdoors has been used for centuries, my dad raised hogs that way, I knew other farmers who did as well, wish we could go back to those ways! We need to go back to those ways of life and how our food is produced. Thank you for the information
I haven't eaten a single tyson product in 15 years. Every state is jam packed full of small farms still raising free range livestock, hormone free. Just takes a little searching.
Great documentary
Turns out it wasnt the piggys who were greedy after all, it was the business men
Pours coke over pork.
Sees tricanella worms.
Never eats pork again.
Thanks Jesus, you were right again. ❤🎉
What we are witnessing is; if you have enough money and power, you can quite literally do whatever you want, void of laws and consequences. How can these things be known, and major corporations are still licensed to operate??
Remember the GOP line that is a CLASSIC: "Corporations are people too!"
Farmers stick together , the BIG Farmers stick it to the SMALL Farmers !
Switch to the Mediterranean diet, which means less red meat and pork. Support your local farmer’s market. Live longer and healthier!
I still need my steaks
When I worked construction in Iowa these are the types of buildings I used to build and do maintenance on. I’ve seen the pigs get hauled off on a bobcat then left out for one of the trash people to pick up. I would often smell like ammonia getting home. These buildings aren’t just horrible for the pigs but the people who build and maintain them.
I work with a lot of guys who use to be Hog farmers. They would lose 50$ for every hog sold to market at the end.
ya so contract feeding is very appealing . it's a guaranteed cheque every month while the packer takes on market risk
BEEF Industry is Being Pressured to the Same End Result..
I don't like one corporation having so much power in food, it's a guaranteed loss for the common people
If you eat any of their products
Save your comments
Action speak louder than words
Awesome documentary. Thank you
In my little town a big company came in and started processing meat chickens, until they were stopped, they dumped blood guts and feathers into the stream. Everything in the stream died. They were fined $150,000 by the Ministry for Industries. That small fine and the dumping of waste instead of disposing of it legally made that company millions of dollars in profit over the time where they operated that way. Well enough to buy out the business that disposes of the blood, guts & feathers, further increasing thier market monopoly. Sad world we live in, where share holders and owners greed in the present is stuffing up the environment for the future of the globe. Sad indictment of humanity's failings.
Greed, there's the reason. Putin encourages small farmers to survive.
Mega farms are seriously becoming a problem.
Would never boat or let my family near Iowa water.. I lived in clear lake Iowa.. every waterway looks like chocolate milk and stinks like manure... Way to go USA
The few large milk buyers are trying to do this with the dairy industry as well. They are herding dairy farmers into farming all one way and they are doing it under the guise of "animal welfare" regulations.
Don't forget about the turkey and chicken confinements on top of the hog confinements in NW Iowa!
The love of money is the root of much evil !
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?
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
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
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.
There should not be a monopoly on food
Then rear your own pigs. Monopolies can only form in sectors where the market is over-regulated to prevent competition.
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?
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.
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.
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. th-cam.com/video/Ax0SIbxgqDw/w-d-xo.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.
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
I don’t like eating meat because I don’t like killing a sentient being for my taste buds. But that Tyson does is beyond evil and I hope that the corporate people at Tyson face really severe consequences for what they’ve done to these animals because at least family farms are more humane to the animals. Factory farms treat these animals like meat.
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.
@@MatthewGreer-h3klaughing in lab grown meat
Plants are technically sentient if you can live with eating plants others can live with consuming meat@user-sq5sl4uz3c
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?
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.
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.
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
@@whiteymcprivileged3144 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?
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 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.
I really don’t care if my food was happy or not. You are such a hippie.
@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
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.
Corporate mantra: Privatize Profits, Socialize Losses!
You nailed it. Also watch those state wide politicians that have been there for a long time, they should have done more to help their constituent farmers than this.
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
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.
@@peter5.056 This is a sound argument but it's never the buyers fault. This argument is used by giant corporations in all sectors. Namely OIL. ❤
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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That could happen with any employer..
We need more of this kind of journalism. Keep up the good work
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Europe where I live might be just as bad I honestly don't know, but after watching a few Documentaries on Americas food industry is absolutely terrifying.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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!).
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.