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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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Partly, that's because meat is controlled by cartels, with 85% of all the beef being processed by four packers, and nearly every chicken going through one of four poultry processors. These middlemen jack up prices to grocers while colluding to push down the payments to their suppliers.
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2026-05-09T13:18:30.346Z