President Donald Trump signed an executive order allowing American farmers and ranchers to process and sell their own food to lower beef prices and challenge large corporate meatpackers that hold a monopoly over farmers.
The American cattle rancher in the first clip exposes that they’ve all been sold out. They are at risk of being run out of business and America’s meat is being imported.
Four large mega corporations now own 85% of the entire industry. Two of them are foreign owned, one of the two is Chinese. China controls the pork, not beef.
The four companies that control roughly 85 percent of America’s beef-processing capacity are JBS, Cargill, Tyson, and National Beef.
“At least 50% or more of the beef processing is controlled by countries outside of the US. It comes down to our own food source security.”
American cattle rancher exposing that they’ve all been sold out, they’re at risk of being run out of business and your meat is being imported
– 4 large mega corporations now own 85% of the entire industry
– 2 of them are foreign owned
– 1 of them is Chinese“50% or more of the… pic.twitter.com/BkmdAZ3umv
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 13, 2025
President Trump is cutting out the
middlemen in the monopoly.
President Trump just signed an executive order creating a new path for American ranchers to sell meat DIRECTLY to consumers and bypass the Big Four processors.
“We’re creating a program where small and medium-sized and large ranchers can sell their products directly to… pic.twitter.com/SFsputAYef
— MAHA Action (@MAHA_Action) September 4, 2026
The Story
As reported by The Hill, the administration aims to target the few major companies that control the vast majority of the U.S. beef market.
Farmers and ranchers are already legally allowed to slaughter and process livestock on their own property for personal consumption.
Selling meat to the general public currently requires processing in facilities that allegedly meet strict federal sanitation, safety, and regular inspection standards.
President Trump stated that he is directing legal documents to be drafted to give farmers the right to process their own food.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced plans to waive processing rules, remove outdated federal guidance, and help smaller local processors expand.
The initiative is designed to help family farms and independent producers compete against large, foreign-influenced processing monopolies.
Experts note that it remains unclear how much regulatory change a president can enact independently without congressional approval.
The monopolies will scream about safety issues.
Agriculture Secretary noted that two foreign countries(Brazilian-controlled JBS and Marfrig-owned National Beef) that own the beef processing set what ranchers get paid and what American families pay.
Rollins traced the squeeze to the Biden years, when she said the industry underwent a —culminating in 2023, for the first time in American history, in the United States importing more food than it exported. She put numbers on the damage: a dollar in the farm economy, input costs up 40 to 50 percent, and tens of thousands of ranchers wiped out.
Attorney General Todd Blanche has an active antitrust investigation into the Big Four’s pricing power, while the administration funds and deregulates small and mid-sized regional processors so ranchers stop being trapped selling into a foreign-controlled bottleneck. Trump has gone further, floating an order letting ranchers process their own meat and calling the current arrangement a outright.
It’s the same reshoring playbook the White House has run on manufacturing and pharmaceuticals—now aimed at an industry that decides whether American dinner tables answer to American ranchers, or foreign boardrooms.
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Four companies control roughly 85 percent of America’s beef-processing capacity—JBS, Cargill,… pic.twitter.com/dEvlJsNb54
— M.A. Rothman (@MichaelARothman) September 3, 2026