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High Meat Prices Are Helping Fuel Inflation, And A Few Big Companies Are Being Blamed

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  • 6 min
  • 8/14/2021
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View ContentHigh Meat Prices Are Helping Fuel Inflation, And A Few Big Companies Are Being Blamed

Prices for beef, pork, and chicken have surged during the pandemic, and the Biden administration believes it knows who's partly behind it: a handful of big meatpacking companies that control most of the country's supply. NPR follows the story.


Discussion Questions

To what extent are meat packers or inflation to blame for the rise in prices?