Yesterday, the White House posted a blog entitled “Addressing Concentration in the Meat-Processing Industry to Lower Food Prices for American Families.” It stated:  The President understands that families have been facing higher prices at the grocery store recently. Half of those recent increases are from meat prices—specifically, beef, pork, and poultry. While factors like increased consumer demand have played a role, the price increases are also driven by a lack of competition at a key bottleneck point in the meat supply chain: meat-processing.  That blog post went on to say that the Administration is addressing the issue by “taking strong actions to crack down on illegal price fixing, enforce antitrust...

TAGS – Livestock, North America