Nebraska Senator Deb Fischer says a highly concentrated meat-packing industry is doing irreputable harm to producers and forcing consumers away from the grocery store.
She tells Brownfield, “To see these prices, fluctuate so much at the packer level and then hitting the consumer so hard, that’s not going to encourage a consumer to buy a steak for the weekend and put it on the grill,” she says.
The Republican Ag Committee Member says when the cyberattack against JBS USA shutdown operations, it worsened an on-going problem.