talking about that later. will you break up the big four meat-packers? emily: kayleigh, even before he took office, joe biden criticized the trump administration s handling and logistical fashion of the pandemic calling the lack of testing of the time, a travesty. he claimed it was he, jill biden, who warned america about the ramifications. , should in the warning has been about his handling? kayleigh: great point there, no doubt about that. jill biden may have been silent right there because he wasn t, his under press secretary? listen to what she said. this time around we had covid, we saw an economic shut down with 10 million americans out of work, we saw covid raging
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the books not being enforced so biden is correct we need competition, hold meat packers accountable. think of how great things are for the meat packing industry. they are able to import this cheaper foreign beef, pass it off as product of the u.s.a. and our american ranchers, more than capable of supplying the beef and the meat needs for the nation and much of the world cannot differentiate their product. so you are seeing the prices, going to the grocery store and meat costs more but the ranchers are not able to take advantage of that, quite the opposite. they are being undercut. all they want is a country of origin label on their products. and if you want to buy brazilian beef, australian beef, canadian beef, that s up to you. the consumer ought to know. you pay a premium price, you better know where the product is from and i believe the american ranchers have a premium product and that helps the consumer, the rancher and holds the meat packers accountable. right now they are getting
work force to help supply possibly more independent meat processing plants, and making the point that we need a well trained work force to do that. there is some reporting indicating that i have read in montana press, for example, about the lack of qualified cutters who are out there to work in these plants and how do we get a larger work force available. so what president biden has done is two things. i think invest from brick and mortar facilities, more meat packing plants, and invest from work force, get more folks trained up that know how to cut meat to be able to meet the needs out there. there is also something else that needs to be done, too, lawrence. we need to have teeth in the packers and stockyards act so that when these big packers lower their prices and undercut some of these meat packers out there and put them out of
administration pointing the finger at american meat packers for skyrocketing prices after months of inaksz on inflation crisis. kevin: the white house is swifting moving to implement liberal wish list from last year. mark is live in the nation s capital with all the details. good morning, my friend. mark: breakfast costs more these days and rising meat prices may be partially to blame. it is reported beef prices are up 20% in the last year. pork up nearly 17% and chicken close to 10%. the president says he s shocked to learn how much prices have gone up and held a round table with farmers and ranchers on monday. president biden: i was sitting in my kitchen yesterday with my wife with her sister and a good friend and she was