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Unlike Chicken And Pork, Beef Still Begins With Small Family Ranches

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Barbara and Norman Roux stand in front of cattle pens on their farm outside of Moundridge, Kan., where she has raised cattle for nearly 70 years.

The beef industry is shaped like a bottle: It starts at the bottom with 750,000 small ranches and ends with just four meatpacking plants processing about 82 percent of the beef we eat.

(Image credit: Peggy Lowe/Harvest Public Media)


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