Tuesday, February 6, 2024

UNBRIDLED CAPITALISM THE TYSON WAY

 The CEO of Tyson Foods was featured in a news segment discussing rumors of infection in Tyson's Foods (chicken, and pork) processing plants as well as possible disruption in the nation's food supply. There were several segments showing the precautions Tyson workers were taking to prevent the spread of Covid 19 including wearing masks, gloves, and protective other clothing. One thing that was quite obvious is there wasn't a single White worker to be found as all workers were Mestizos. For decades now Tyson Foods has waged a demographic war against the majority White population of north Arkansas where Tyson's home base is located. 

Are you aware of the business model of Tyson Foods? Are you aware of the demographic change that Tyson Foods has had on neighboring communities? Consider the town of Rogers, Arkansas. Before Tyson Foods set up shop the schools were majority White. Indeed, many White Arkansans (although they won't admit it publicly) fled to northwest Arkansas to escape towns in southeastern, central, and eastern Arkansas that were majority Black. They were sick of their children being the minority in the public school system. Northwest Arkansas seemed to be a more wholesome environment and it was majority White and conservative. It was a better place to raise children. Then along came Tyson Foods which decided to make northwest Arkansas its world corporate headquarters. Once established they began to import Mexican labor by the thousands to work in their food processing plants and in time Rogers, Arkansas went from being an overwhelming White school (98% White) to a majority Mestizo (65% Mestizo) school! 

Tyson Foods soon came to dominate the entire poultry business by buying up almost the entire supply chain: feed, slaughterhouses, trucking, and independent processing plants. This is what is known as Monopoly Capitalism whereby a business tries to capture the entire market and destroy its competition by cutthroat or unethical businesses practices including operating at a loss to drive competitors into bankruptcy after which they recoup their losses by jacking up their prices sky high gouging the consumers who now have nowhere else to buy from.  Needless to say, this is not a practice that would be allowed in the White People's Republic

Tyson Foods dictates all prices at all levels as a result. If you raise chickens to be sold to Tyson Foods, you must buy all feed and supplies from Tyson Foods including the chickens and only Tyson trucks can transport chickens to the slaughterhouse. Tyson Foods also ranks its "independent" producers on a weekly basis against other poultry producers to see how much grain each farm needs to produce a pound of meat. The losers are penalized by Tyson Foods by lowering the price of their chickens. Of course, Tyson Foods maintains ownership of the chickens and leases them to chicken house owners who cannot sale them to anybody else. It is a closed system that encourages cutthroat competition among its "independent" producers. It is a prime example of Unbridled Capitalism and the direct opposite of Free Enterprise! It should be obvious by now that Free Enterprise cannot compete against such a rigged system which only leads to consolidation of power in a few, or even one, gigantic megacorporation. That is where the populist ought to come in and protect Free Enterprise and that is exactly what would happen in the WPR! But obviously not in the United States!

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