A so-called meat cartel is being blamed for the high cost of meat in the United States,

and the Trump administration is moving to break it up.

On another topic, Europe is weighing the possibility of mass deportations.

Among the latest countries on this front is Germany.

Also, meanwhile, the C-speed may be undermining American nuclear deterrence

with land purchases near key U.S. bases, and also Antifa, recently tried and then failed to stop a turning point event at UC Berkeley.

I'll be talking about these topics and a lot more today.

I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads.

There's a cartel, not the drug cartel, the meat cartel. And apparently they're the cause of the

high cost of meat in the United States. If you want to

buy a delicious, wonderful steak, and you look at that price tag and you say, I cannot afford

this wonderful delicious steak. Blame the cartel. And President Donald Trump has now issued a

directive titled to strip this so-called cartel of all of its power to break its monopoly on the whole meat industry.

And here's what they said, right?

It's the official White House announcement.

It says today President Donald J. Trump directed the Department of Justice.

This isn't like the, this isn't like, you know, some farming initiative.

This is the DOJ, the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into the nation's largest

meatpacking companies for potential collusion, price fixing, and price manipulation.

An actual cartel by definition, in other words, they've been

colluding and creating a cartel. That's the allegation, right? It says this decisive action

targets the foreign dominated conglomerates. By the way, which foreign countries are those?

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