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DO Dan Osborn Dan Osborn Dan Osborn is a former president of a BCTGM union local in Nebraska.

“Tyson, this is what Tyson does, right? They've just paid out two lawsuits recently of over $80 million for price fixing, strategically working with other packers to shut down plants around the country so they could dictate to the producer what they pay for the product all the way to the grocery store what we pay. And this is just like a little fine. It's kind of like the New York Yankees going above the salary cap. It's just a price of doing business for them.”

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar · US Politics · August 2026

“Tyson, this is what Tyson does, right? They've just paid out two lawsuits recently of over $80 million for price fixing, strategically working with other packers to shut down plants around the country so they could dictate to the producer what they pay for the product all the way to the grocery store what we pay. And this is just like a little fine. It's kind of like the New York Yankees going above the salary cap. It's just a price of doing business for them.” — Dan Osborn, Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

Context

Dan Osborn, independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Nebraska, on Breaking Points, discussing the closure of a Tyson beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, and Trump's beef import deal. He was asked what the federal government had done about the closure.

Transcript

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar Around 41:49 into the episode
Speaker 7

A natural disaster.

Speaker 6

So what has the federal government done if this was a natural disaster?

Speaker 8

Abandonment, I suppose, would be the word for it. I mean, look, Tyson, this is what Tyson does, right? They've just paid out two lawsuits recently of over $ 80 million for price fixing, strategically working with other packers to shut down plants around the country so they could dictate to the producer what they pay for the product all the way to the grocery store what we pay. And this is just like a little fine. It's kind of like the New York Yankees going above the salary cap. It's just a price of doing business for them. So it's very frustrating. And they are breaking the law. by not putting that plant up for sale too. Tyson did the same thing in Norfolk, Nebraska years ago with a chicken plant. They dumped concrete down their drain on the way out so a competitor couldn't buy it.

Speaker 3

So, sir, one thing I'm curious about is you and your opponent both seem to find yourself against this administration's order on beef. I believe that Senator Ricketts says, yeah, he says that this is not a long-term solution. Flooding the market with lower quality beef compromises Nebraska farmers'…

Speaker 8

Yeah, I think that it's, I'm not a rubber stamp, right? That's what, you know, he's rubber stamped everything that's happened up until this point. You know, as governor, he had an opportunity to go after the meat packers. And let's be clear, that's who's going to win in all this, right? Because…

Speaker 7

It goes to the packers.

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