Will there be a third era of American trust-busting?
Jul 29, 2020
3 minutes
Americans hunkered down at home early in the COVID-19 pandemic found beef and pork nearly as hard to buy as toilet paper.
The culprit: Outbreaks of the coronavirus among workers caused shutdowns at a handful of huge processing plants, which prompted calls for antitrust investigations from President Donald Trump and lawmakers in both parties.
Just how few companies dominate the U.S. meat industry would not surprise readers of two books offering liberal critiques of the
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