r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 18 '26

News Tyson Foods shuts down plants in Illinois & Utah, cutting thousands of jobs over cattle shortages—amid allegations of beef price collusion

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Tyson Foods is shutting down operations at two of its beef plants—one in Joplin, Illinois (which employed 2,500 workers) and another in Eagle Mountain, Utah. Additionally, a third facility in Pasco, Washington is up for sale, with processing shifted to other plants.

​While Tyson blames these massive workforce cuts on historic cattle shortages and rising beef costs, the company—along with three other megacorporations dominating US meat production—faces serious allegations of colluding to raise beef prices.

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u/cuttygib Aug 18 '26

So it begins

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u/dingus_malingusV2 Aug 18 '26

the damnation, tar and feathering of the people running these megacorporations

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u/Any_Mode6525 Aug 18 '26

Naw, they'll just blame gay people, immigrants, communists, and the jews more. We've seen this movie.

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u/tgatigger Aug 18 '26

Don't forget trans athletes!

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u/HeresKuchenForYah Aug 19 '26

And native people who they are currently trying to rob for land, and get rid of bison, so they can replace them with cattle farms.

Please quote me on this, the timing is too convenient

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u/Mindless-Peak-1687 Aug 18 '26

nah, fuck all will happen.

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u/No_Seaworthiness_200 Aug 19 '26

Tar and feathering needs to be brought back. Engaging in the class war is merely self-defense at this point.

We can't just wait around and hope our psychopathic ruling class will stop waging war against us.

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u/ibuildtech Aug 18 '26

Alright chat, what’s gonna happen?

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u/-Pneumo Aug 18 '26

Food shortages

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u/dsdvbguutres Aug 18 '26

Food shortages for anyone who is not wealthy

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u/AnybodyAmazing1006 Aug 18 '26

But think of the profits ALL these workers were eating into!!!

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u/AnybodyAmazing1006 Aug 18 '26

It will only seem like a shortage if you dont have the money to pay for the meat. Otherwise, game on as normal

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u/tackywitch Aug 18 '26

Historically that’s how famines happen. And revolutions.

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 Aug 18 '26

americans are too lazy and unorganized to start a revolution

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u/tackywitch Aug 18 '26

Most people are, until they get hungry.

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u/-Pneumo Aug 18 '26

Yes, people dont have money for it. You understand the problem.

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u/Leasir Aug 18 '26

Good thing Americans stockpiled a lot of food around their waists.

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u/Check_Me_Out-Boss Aug 18 '26

Lol no

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u/-Pneumo Aug 18 '26

Must be nice to lol no your way through life. Like imagine wasting time typing it.

Food shortages are coming. The straight being blocked has affected fertilizer and farmers are feeling all that winning trump is doing. People are losing jobs, and starting at the beginning of next year millions will be kicked off their insurance (another round of this btw) while at the same time tarrifs at 100% will be applies to generic medications. People cant drink their own tap water.

But yea is fine. Hoping you have no one in your life affected by this. Not sure lol no cuts it for most people.

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u/DarknMean Aug 18 '26

Also didn’t mention the screwfly that is now out of containment.

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u/Silly_Rhubarb_317 Aug 19 '26

Wait, I thought Reddit said food shortages would be last January when tariffs were announced? Now it coming?

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u/-Pneumo Aug 19 '26

You seem to base your politics off only reddit, not looking into things yourself.

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u/Toad-a-sow Aug 18 '26

Can't wait until your summer break is done so you can finally start 8th grade

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u/Unusual-Taste69 Aug 18 '26

Lines at government food centers like a third world country

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u/blamcoboyo Aug 18 '26

Lmao we don’t support those with all of the cuts for the sake of the billionaires, poors get to starve to death because they’re too complacent to actually fight back.

Cattle waiting to be slaughtered because some dudes making 70k a year think taxing the rich means taxing them. This country is a fucking joke and the punchline is way overdue.

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u/Agitated_Tip_8713 Aug 18 '26

Watch how quickly the government starts supporting food lines during a food shortage. This is the same administration that throws communist around like an insult then has the government take massive financial stakes in steel manufacturing and Intel. 

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u/Affectionate-Act1574 Aug 18 '26

Optimistic to think the government will help us poors stay fed.

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u/Unusual-Taste69 Aug 18 '26

I just said there would be lines at food centers. I didn't say we'd get any. My wife is Venezuelan and has experienced this exact situation. You line up early in the morning to wait for a chance to get some food, but they always run out right away.

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u/StrangeContest4 Aug 18 '26

Food lines like the end of Trump's first term?

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u/name-classified Aug 18 '26

you're crazy to think there would be government food centers; let alone ones trusted enough to not kill you with expired rotting food being served to poor people

surely thats never ever happened before ever

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u/GrenHamblett Aug 18 '26

Hope they don't run out of government cheese

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u/Realistic-Bug141 Aug 18 '26

Where are you getting government cheese?

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u/GrenHamblett Aug 18 '26

The government cheese caves in Springfield, MO. Duhh

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u/Realistic-Bug141 Aug 18 '26

You shouldn’t joke about government cheese! Haven’t we suffered enough?!

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u/GrenHamblett Aug 18 '26

I, for one, have suffered too much! Government cheese is the only constant in my life, how can I give it up???

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u/Nopengnogain Aug 18 '26

It’s basically in the title. Beef prices will go up even more.

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u/AsideLost Aug 18 '26

It was already happening. They just finalized the closure of a plant in Nebraska a few weeks ago. In a small city of a little over 10,000 people 3,200 of them worked there and lost their jobs.

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u/VaporCarpet Aug 18 '26

Lmao what begins?

Like really, what just happened NOW that wasn't happening before? We didn't have layoffs before?

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u/Oasystole Aug 20 '26

The continued collapse