U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, has a beef with meatpacking corporations. The Eighth District congressman said that he supports the Trump Administration’s investigation into the “Big 4” meatpackers for alleged price fixing – those “Big 4” being Cargill, Tyson...
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, is sponsoring a bill he said will put a stop to large meatpacking companies operating as a monopoly. There have been growing concerns by livestock producers in Missouri and elsewhere of the “big four” meatpacking...
Missouri’s junior senator says four companies process 85 percent of all beef in the United States, and he’s calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch an antitrust investigation into the meatpacking industry. U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R) made his...