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Exhibit 619

FACT SHEET: The Biden-Harris Action Plan for a Fairer, More Competitive, and More Resilient Meat and Poultry Supply Chain

Exhibit 619 ยท White House fact sheet

FACT SHEET: The Biden-Harris Action Plan for a Fairer, More Competitive, and More Resilient Meat and Poultry Supply Chain

Four large meat-packing companies control 85 percent of the beef market.

Gives top-four shares of 85 percent (beef), 54 percent (poultry) and about 70 percent (pork). Commits $1 billion in American Rescue Plan funds to independent processing capacity, new Packers and Stockyards rules, a DOJ-USDA complaint portal and "Product of USA" labeling. States that ranchers got over 60 cents of each consumer beef dollar fifty years earlier against about 39 cents then (source of that figure not stated in the fact sheet). Says the Packers and Stockyards Act "was systematically weakened by the Trump Administration USDA." These are administration statements, not agency findings.

Source
The White House (Biden administration)
Date
3 January 2022
Quoted from
Third paragraph
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/01/03/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-action-plan-for-a-fairer-more-competitive-and-more-resilient-meat-and-poultry-supply-chain/
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Finding AGR-5.3
Primary record USDA rules defining unfair practices under the Packers and Stockyards Act were proposed in 2010, limited by a 2011 appropriations rider, issued in 2016, withdrawn in 2017, finalized in 2020, expanded in 2024 and, for broiler grower payments, delayed in 2026 to December 31, 2027. Administrations and Congresses of both parties acted at each step, and White Houses of both parties described meat processing as insufficiently competitive in January 2022 and September 2026.