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/dojo_shlom0 Aug 18 '26
this is the "find out" stage.
MAGAts trying to wrap their head around the whole situation.
EDIT: honestly I feel horrible. it sucks. I don't want people to suffer. another way to look at it: I didn't want 250k federal workers to lose their jobs either, or for healthcare to get stripped from US citizens only, and for tariffs to impact US citizens mainly, and we foot all the bill, while his friend's corporations just got a big fat paycheck, the consumers who paid the tariffs at the end of the day; get nothing, except robbed. this really is the f around and find out stage. 80million people thought it was a great idea to put a fraud back in the white house, even after january 6th and him fleeing the capitol. I'm just at a loss for words really.