Costs are reduced. Both producers and consumers benefit. Producers in most areas of agriculture feel helpless. They are not only being denied a fair price for their output, but they are also being exploited by some of the same corporations on their input costs for food production. This lack of competition is destroying the very base of wealth creation.
Agricultural producers invest vast amounts of capital and labor.
They take extreme risks to transform soil, water and sunshine into the wealth, that is the very foundation of our economic system. Farm and Ranch families are consuming the precious little equity they have left. Predator - One that victimizes, plunders, or destroys, especially for one's own gain. All of these companies have a history of market aggression and illegal activity. With this enormous level of concentration and the large numbers of captive supply cattle, the three major packers don't have to compete.