Meatpacking industry is not the cause of higher meat prices. It’s government policy.

Michael Busler
4 min readJan 23, 2022

Just because there are four large firms that control the market, it does not mean that they can push prices up at will.

Contrary to President Biden’s comments that the meatpacking industry is causing inflation in the price of meat, exactly the opposite is true. Biden claims that the four largest firms in that industry are…

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Michael Busler

Dr. Busler is an economist and a public policy analyst. He is a Professor of Finance at Stockton University. His op-ed columns appear in Townhall, Newsmax.