{"id":85334,"date":"2026-02-25T17:30:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/big-four-meatpackers-under-fire-as-beef-prices-soar\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:00:33","slug":"big-four-meatpackers-under-fire-as-beef-prices-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/big-four-meatpackers-under-fire-as-beef-prices-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Big Four\u2019 meatpackers under fire as beef prices soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bae9c63f0034181bb05c7ca31bdfcaa3960058a4\/0_551_2400_1919\/master\/2400.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=4936ed33e8b471b488a5049df78ed320\" alt=\"\u2018Big Four\u2019 meatpackers under fire as beef prices soar\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">\u2018Big Four\u2019 meatpackers under fire as beef prices soar<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">McDonald\u2019s and other food industry players accuse the big beef packers of collusion and price-gouging. The packers deny these allegationsOn 21 November, at the end of the first shift at the Tyson Foods beef processing plant in Lexington, Nebraska, all workers were called to the lunchroom and told they no longer had jobs. Many gathered afterward in the gravel parking lot. Some wailed and cried out.\u201cIt\u2019s a terrible thing to know that we won\u2019t be able to pay rent, won\u2019t be able to pay the electricity, our cars \u2013 all the bills coming our way,\u201d said Constancio Perales, a 64-year-old worker born in Durango, Mexico, who has worked at the plant since 1996 \u2013 the last 25 years cutting the bone out of chuck steaks. \u201cIt\u2019s very sad that they would fire us like that \u2013 just telling us there\u2019s no more work, as if to say go away.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/feb\/25\/beef-packers-under-fire-prices-soar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts \u2018Big Four\u2019 meatpackers under fire as beef prices soar McDonald\u2019s and other food industry players accuse the big beef packers of collusion and price-gouging. The packers deny these allegationsOn 21 November, at the end of the first shift at the Tyson Foods beef processing plant in Lexington, Nebraska, all workers were called to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":85335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}