[Imc-newsroom] Monopoly in beef--resistance in Greenville, IL

[Peter Miller]

This looks like an important story.  Would anybody like to take it?

Let me know...

-Peter


>From: "Linda McDowell" <auction at fgi.net>
>To: <peterm at shout.net>
>Subject: Smithfield
>Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:10:35 -0600
>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000
>
>Peter,
>     Thanks for your interest in the  matter of Smithfield's buy out of 
> American Foods aka Green Bay Dressed Beef.  Should this buy out take 
> place it will allow one packer to control 98% of the dairy beef kill in 
> the US.  At the present time these two packer kill around 2000 fed dairy 
> animals a day.  The only other packer to kill these is Federal at Rapid 
> City, South Dakota and they will kill less than 500 a week.  It will also 
> have a major impact on the slaughter cow market as both kill a large % of 
> the cull cows in the Midwest.
>     There are other cow kill plants in the US but the cost of 
> transportation is prohibitive.
>                       I'll try to call you tomorrow and we'll talk about 
> this in more detail.
>Alva R. McDowell
>Farmers Livestock Market
>Greenville, Il.
>618-664-1432 office
>618-267-3410 cell

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