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January 19, 2022

Title: Who’s to Blame for Skyrocketing Meat Prices?
Topic: Meat Shortage

Discussed by Sid Miller
with Sid Miller (www.MillerForTexas.com)

Texas Department of Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is fed up with skyrocketing beef, pork, poultry, and egg prices.

Click here for more information about Sid Miller’s reelection campaign for Texas Agriculture Commissioner.

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Questions/Issues Discussed:

The Biden Administration is blaming big processing plants as the cause of escalating beef, pork, poultry, and egg prices. Who is really to blame? Sid admits that this is the only issue that he and Biden agree on.

The Biden administration wants to give a billion dollars to the small packing plants to break the monopoly of the big ones. Is this a good or bad plan? Sid Miller explains how a free market is the best solution.

What three things does Sid Miller propose to bring down costs? Sid discusses investigating the Big 4 Packers, specifically the suspicious fire at one of the plants. He also believes ranchers need to be fully compensated for their steers, therefore lowering prices to consumers, and opening more farmers co-op plants.

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April 30, 2020

Title: Meat Shortage Coming Especially Pork
Topic: Meat Shortage

Discussed by Sid Miller
with Sid Miller (www.MillerForTexas.com)

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller was on the show on Monday, April 27  discussing the effects the Coronavirus quarantine has had on the state of Texas.

Today, Sid offers another update. Are things looking better or worse?

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Will Texans experience a real beef, chicken, pork, and eggs shortage? Will it be a short or long-term shortage? Will customers experience a slight price increase in meat products? Yes to all…

Why are many of the manufacturing plants not operating?

Are many farmers/ranchers “plowing their meat and/or produce under” – and what does this mean? Are vegetable farmers doing the same?

Sid Miller stresses that the problem is packaging, labeling and distribution. Processors may package steaks in a 50-count box for a restaurant. How does this ship to a consumer?

And, why did the Texas Legislature strip the responsibility of monitoring credit card skimming from the Texas Agriculture Commissioner? The new group in charge of this is the “Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation”. How are they handling the issue? How long has it been since the news reported the discovery of a skimmer in your area? Did the thieves simply go away?

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