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Daybreak Dec. 15: White House slams ‘greed of meat conglomerates’

12/15/21 10:00 AM By Philip Brasher, Steve Davies, and Bill Tomson
KEYWORDS Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Farmers for Free Trade H-2A visas H-2A Workers Labor Department National Milk Producers Federation President Biden Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg U.S. Dairy Export Council United Dairymen of Arizona CEO Robert Chesler
The White House is doubling down on blaming meatpackers for higher food prices. White House press secretary Jen Psaki was pressed at a news conference Tuesday to say how corporate greed had caused inflation. She immediately cited the “greed of meat conglomerates.”
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