McDonald's should become their own meat packer and interface with the farmers direct. Everyone gets the best deal that way and cut out the asshole middleman driving everything through the roof.
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2024
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They've tried. Wendy's QSCC has tried. Walmart is trying. It's hard to be a beef packer. You have to sell the rest of the animal too, and now you're just a filthy beef packer yourself. Also sadly impossible to interface with ranchers direct, still must be fed out at a feed yard.
Ahh yeah, good point. I didn't think about the feed lot portion.
Tell your boyfriend, if he says he's got beef, that I'm a vegetarian and I ain't fucking scared of him.
McDonald’s has some beef with today’s largest meat packers.
I would have been disappointed if there wasn’t a line like this in the story somewhere. It practically writes itself.
We'll isn't that the pot calling the kettle black. The restaurant chain famous for jacking prices up while shrinking portion sizes and generally screwing their customers in every way they can doesn't like it when they are getting taken advantage of. Cry me a fucking river. Fuck you McDogsBreath!
Don't forget about screwing their workers.
I will be thoroughly stunned if the huge settlement they may get actually results in lower prices for customers.
To be fair, the screwing flows downriver. If the sourcers start getting greedy, the business has to make up the difference by increasing prices.
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“Company sues for what company does to customers because those profits are theirs”
"I was talking to my colluding friends and they said you were doing a collusion on us. What the hell? We're not the poors."
The worst part is, the average citizen anywhere in the world can not afford to do this. Only some other evil megacorporations
Beef, the meat kept artificially cheap in the US by subsidies?
Well it's a lot like all the ISPs taking fucktons of money over 25 years to "roll out fiber" and then just basically pocketing the money.
Corporations are the real welfare queens.
Corporations are the real welfare queens.
not sure I'd say queens, perhaps parasites would best fit that sentence
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Capitalist system
Big four fixing prices
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The system is working exactly as it's designed to. I've said it before and I will say it again: captialism only encourages monopolies/cartels - that's the whole point.
If it’s beef, they why have their chicken nuggets also doubled in price in the last couple of years? Oh, this goes back almost a decade you say? So why did you double or triple prices post pandemic?
Dude it's literally right there at the beginning of the post
The fast food giant is suing the U.S. meat industry’s “Big Four” — Tyson, JBS, Cargill and National Beef Packing Company
You can't honestly think McDonald's trying to blame their massive price increases solely on their meat providers is valid.
It might be valid, but there's no way McD's was harmed. Their customers sure got that price fixing damage passed onto them, though.
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Hey everyone. This week, I challenge everyone to eat half as much beef as you normally would. If you eat 2 burgers a week, try just eating 1 and replace the other burger with a piece of chicken, or better yet, it's autumn, and a ton of veggies are still fresh in season from the harvest.
McDonalds can sue the beef packers, but we can cripple their entire supply chain and maybe help the planet out a little bit.
A few years ago, I was hit hard with some food poisoning that had me in the hospital. I don't remember what it was, but it made me tune into food recall reports.
And those recall reports are FREQUENT, and they're mostly meat.
I'm not a vegetarian, but I cut beef out of my diet last year. Pork is my next one. Chicken is going to be really hard though.
For years I never thought I could do vegetarian because I would miss bacon and chicken. Over a decade later and both of those things are so far down in my list of things I miss.
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Can we sue McDonald for all that they did to artificially decrease the cost of beef, and the immense harm that was done to the climate as a result?
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"This is an absurd accusation. We make money by employing children and undocumented immigrants and violating safety standards, not by colluding on prices." -US meat industry
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Said one quasi monopolist to the other...
I'd be OK with giant corporations as if they were actually competing with each other for consumers and labor, paying their fair share of taxes, and weren't allowed to use their revenue to subvert the will of the people by buying politicians.
The problem is that it takes a strong FTC, IRS, NLRB, FEC to ensure the above things, and we know how Republicans and billionaires feel about that.
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Thank god we have Good guy McDonald’s going after the evil natural beef guys….wait
And they'll certainly reduce their prices once they get their supply chain work down right? ... Right?
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They fucked with McDonalds. Big mistake.
Hey now, we should salute McDonalds for keeping Big Beef in check. Those prices trickle down to us! /s
I trust what McDonald's is saying in this case. If anyone knows what collusion to inflate prices and fuck over clients looks like, it's the place with the broken soft serve machines.
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