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Welcome to the views room, a weekly podcast brought to you by Reuters breaking views.

I'm Lauren Silva Loughlin coming to you from my home in Dallas, Texas.

This week I spoke to our fearless leader, Rob Cox, whose hold up in Switzerland.

Rob wrote a great column about how we could see the U.S. version of Saudi Aramco and other similar

massive companies as governments and corporations push for mergers to shore up supply chains

and create national giants. And I've looped in contributing columnist and former colleague,

Edward Chancellor, who also wrote about the slow march towards consolidation and the dangers

it has created in the chicken and egg businesses, as well as many others.

Happy listening.

All right, guys, so you both wrote this week about a topic near and dear to my heart,

which is M&A, but it really isn't just about mergers as we think of them.

More of a fundamental shift, I would say, in globalization and capitalism in some

regards.

So Eddie, let's start with you.

You talk about chicken and egg supply chains in your piece, which I think is at this point

more literal than figurative, say.

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