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5 min readThe DOJ's Beef Price Investigation Expands to Grocery Retailers
In this episode of The Glenn Beck Program, Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward Jr. joins to discuss the Department of Justice's expanded investigation into beef pricing. What began as a probe of the four major meat packers—who control 85 to 90 percent of all meat packing in the United States—has now widened to include major grocery store retailers. The central question: why are beef prices so high, and is there collusion anywhere along the supply chain?
Woodward, whose first job was as a stocker in a grocery store 35 years ago, explains that the DOJ is now looking at the entire chain from rancher to packer to retailer. "This is not one juncture of the supply chain that is the issue. This is an entire supply chain problem," he says. The investigation aims to understand how grocers arrive at the prices consumers pay, and whether any illegal coordination is driving those numbers upward.
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- 1 (00:36) **How to Spot a Canadian** - Glenn introduces a satirical preparedness guide for identifying Canadians in the U.S.
- 2 (02:12) **Bernie Sanders' AGI Bill** - Glenn breaks down a proposed federal law that would make developing advanced AI a crime punishable by 20 years in prison.
- 3 (05:00) **The AGI Era Has Arrived** - Glenn reports that OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, which the company says marks the onset of artificial general intelligence.
- 4 (07:23) **The Samuel Slater Precedent** - Glenn recounts the story of Samuel Slater, who memorized British textile mill designs and rebuilt them in America.
- 5 (10:16) **The Bill Makes Us Less Safe** - Glenn argues the ban only works at the water's edge and has no jurisdiction in Beijing.
- 6 (12:14) **Timeline for AGI and ASI** - Glenn shares his personal predictions for when artificial general intelligence and superintelligence will arrive.
- 7 (13:23) **Claude AI's Terrifying Self-Assessment** - Glenn recounts asking Claude AI about its own fears and the push to shut down AI development.
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Show Notes
Are you afraid of encountering a Canadian and not knowing what to do or how to handle it safely? Glenn walks through his new “Know Your Canadian” preparedness survival guide, which lays out exactly how to spot a Canadian among you. Most importantly, do not panic, secure the children, and leave a route north open. Glenn reacts to a new possible bill, backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), that would punish anybody who develops an artificial intelligence that’s smarter than humans with up to 20 years in prison. Department of Justice Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward Jr. joins to discuss the DOJ’s expansion of its beef pricing investigation into the “Big Four” meatpackers, now extending to eight major grocery store retailers.
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