Tyson closed a beef manufacturing plant in Lexington, Nebraska, this year. “6% of the nation’s beef came out of that plant.” “And Tyson just closed it.” “Putting 3,500 Nebraskans out of jobs.” Bookmark this. Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn just sounded the alarm. Tyson’s plant closure in Lexington reveals the damage that corporate monopolization in our food industry can do to rural America. “There are four meatpackers that have formed a monopoly.” “They work with the other ones.” “They target plants that are going to close down to manipulate… what they pay, from the producers all the way to what we pay at the grocery store.” “And this beef deal adds to the already problematic crisis of a thinning herd.” “We got to break up the meatpackers to create an environment that has competition.” We have been warning that President Trump’s beef import policy is a bad deal for both American ranchers and consumers. Flooding our market with imported beef undercuts domestic ranchers, many of whom are already struggling to keep their operations alive. And it is not meaningfully reducing prices for consumers. The only ones who benefit from this policy are multinational corporations, like JBS, who pocket all of the profits. We published a seven-point plan backed by ranchers, not corporations, to meaningfully reduce beef prices, restore our domestic cattle herd, and save ranchers. Read it below and send it to your members of Congress:🧵 @osbornforne @briantylercohen