Joel Salatin
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Meanwhile, we're way short on beef.
You know, beef prices have, I mean, if you followed that, you know, the beef herd is lower than it's been since 1950.
Yeah, the big packers.
The big four.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, and when Trump came on there two months ago berating farmers for their high prices, feeder cattle, you know, four bucks a pound there, it really angered a lot of farmers because nobody's helped beef farmers when the price has been under, you know, under profit.
So...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So... So...
You've just opened up the door for my crusade is a bad word, but it's as good a word as I know right now.
For my thing.
And that is so Bernie Sanders, who walks around the country, got to stop the oligarchy, got to stop the oligarchy.
He's right.
OK, the problem is.
that the liberal class, their only solution to the oligarchy is a bigger government bully, you know, antitrust, whatever, to come in and break them up.
They become one.
Exactly.
In 1906, when Teddy Roosevelt, I call him Roosevelt.
When Teddy Roosevelt got at that time in 1906, after his absence, Sinclair wrote The Jungle.
Within six months, those seven companies, the seven Packers, Swift, Armor, that controlled, at that time, seven companies controlled 50% of America's meat supply in 1906.