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... the ... with a last week's news of Comcast bid to take over time more on the web monopoly was back on the right up ... my next guest says that some other industries we should really be concerned about a man has a monopoly ... this already in place with me now is Christina Lamb at the salt of the recently released book in fact it was released today them Iraqi investigative look at how full Companies muscled their way to control the Americas bit Supply congratulations on the book here and here it is so ... aam ... that is ... it's a it's a it's a monopoly right are saying about the Mach one a monopoly but so very few companies controlling of the very small ... gold relaunch Amana meat supply how this happened ... well it's a great start to attack Comcast ... merger proposal what this book shows this have for the nineteen seventies eighties and nineties ... we had a similar wave of consolidation emerges that happened in the meat industry ... back in the early eighties we had a really competitive and transparent meet system ... for example the top four companies and be controlled only about twenty six percent of the market ... today after this wave of consolidation ... for companies control more than eighty five percent of the market ... so they have a tremendous amount of market power ... determine a family with and in this book shows definitively ... ton of these companies have enough market power that they can depress what they pay farmers what the same time keeping prices higher than the normally would be for consumers ... and getting the outsize profits in the middle ... not one economies to look and there's Tyson foods and you say that they basically have ... it did get to chicken pharmacists of on the edge ... basically with living on the edge because they think suppressed down how much they try to explain ... absolutely Tyson Foods is really a pioneer of the industrialize mean system on talking about today ... and this book really started for me when I was reporting in towns where Tyson is that on an economic force in Arkansas a nice town for the prettiest ... of coal trains can make a nice plants ... and maybe one the most troubling envious as I found this book is just a Tyson treats farmers ... today ... chicken farmer might ... borrow two million dollars to build a giant industrial factory farm where they raise tens of thousands of personal time ... with the farmers under contract Tyson Foods the farmer never actually owns the birds they raise the most important asset on the farm ... Tyson delivers the feed that delivers the bird in Intel's the farmers in exacting detail how to raise the sea and was ... what I found is that because Tyson operates as a virtual monopoly in most towns were in space ... they can put the squeeze on these farmers seeking keep their profit margins low ... I met a couple who owned a two million dollar farm who cannot afford health insurance ... they could not afford that to to fix their drive way what do voters twice inside bombast ... prism leaving have summoned to say about this and say well hey we you know we've we've ... we've built up around we build a Tyson Brandon we've we went out when we sell Adweek young people you expect a certain quality so ... why should we profit from it what what Messiah ... well first of all I get Tyson a chance to responds to what's in the book of months ago almost a year ago and ... the response was short and somewhat anemic I laid out specific ... of cases ... that were in the book ... what Tyson likes to say is that they offer farmers stability with the contract and the opportunity ... to be in the meat business and roll communities were jobs are often ... few and far between ... but those arguments really fall apart when you get out onto the ground with this company operates and see how things work ... the store in this book is ... told with Tyson's own documents its contract with farmers ... internal locking in St and and on the record interviews with farmers and company executives ... and it shows that it certainly has the monopolistic power to squeeze farmers enroll America ... and to a slow morning the Baltimore half to leave it that was so ... congratulations again on when thank you very much like his debut ... on the menu so that