Get to know JBS

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Brazilian traders call May 17, 2017 "Joesley Day" — the date on which the power and influence of Brazil's meat industry was exposed in all its ugly glory and gave the stock market a sucker punch.

Joesley Batista, one of two brothers who control JBS, secretly recorded President Michel Temer apparently ordering the payment of bribes to a notoriously corrupt politician who was serving a prison sentence for graft. Details of the recording, made as part of a plea bargain deal Joesley and his brother Wesley had signed arising from their own corruption investigation, were published by a leading Brazilian newspaper.

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-07-02/jbs-brazilian-butchers-took-over-the-world

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

We had better get busy taking back control of our food and medical supply chains. After that we can get serious about bringing manufacturing jobs from Communist China.

 

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The scale of JBS's operations today is stunning: the company employs more than 900,000 people globally, has revenues of $50bn and has customers in 150 countries.

Its network of subsidiaries in different countries allows it to weather storms in the market and get around particular trade restrictions — for instance when the European Union restricted Brazilian beef in 2008, JBS used its Australian subsidiary to continue exports, reported Forbes.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Pretty sharp bunch.

 

[Turkeybird]

Jungle beef supply

 

[Bigfoot]

The little community I live in has a Dollar General, a garage, and a little family owned restaurant. Not long ago, we had an elementary school, and a country store. The school board closed the school (age of the building). Dollar General ran off the country store. The little cafe held on through all this. They put in a drive up window. They finally hung it up today. Reason given was they couldn't get supplies. Lots of reasons to be sick about whats going on in our country. It's just hard to believe the direction everything is going. The "little man" built this country. No place for the little man anymore. Greatest country in the world, and we put all our eggs in foreigners baskets. Here we are, can't even keep our most basic needs floating.

 

[HDRider]

We have let everything get too big

 

[GusPeterson]

The one good thing this deal has done is get information about these guys and other big packer corporations to a world of people that had no clue. Educating the consumer is step 1 to making any real changes, and I think if this deal plays out right it can change the whole meat industry for the better. Keep your product closer to home, both the local butcher and the local rancher would prosper.

 

[HDRider]

I don't know this lady but she must work for JBS. She is their PR agent on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/meatladyOG/posts/113901453644855?__tn__=K-R

 

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Census data from 2000 show that roughly 30 percent of workers in the industry are foreign-born, but this surely underreports the true percentage since Census data underreports undocumented workers. Jeffrey Passel a Senior Demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center estimates that 20 to 25 percent of workers in the meat packing and processing industry are undocumented migrants.
https://migrationfiles.ucdavis.edu/uploads/cf/files/2012-may/artz-choices-paper.pdf