Chapter Ninety-Seven: Protest
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"It's not as comfortable anywhere as at home." After returning to the ranch, Meimei slept for a while, and then drank this delicious rice porridge, Liu Yunxuan couldn't help but sigh.
I didn't tell my family about the things I was born in New York. It has been solved, and it makes Liu's father and mother worried.
"Dada, you and Aunt Michelle go on a plane to play, and you don't take me with you." Fang Fang Zou said with a small face.
When I came back at noon yesterday, I heard Liu Yunxuan and them flying away from the ranch in a helicopter, and Xiao Fangfang couldn't make a fuss.
"When we Fangfang is older, we will take Fangfang to play on the plane. Now Fangfang is still young, and it is not safe to take a helicopter. Seeing that the little ancestor was unhappy again, Liu Yunxuan had no choice but to beat him with his age.
After hearing that, she would be able to take herself with her when she grew up, and Xiao Fangfang showed her smile again.
Autumn is coming soon, and the weather is still so hot. After breakfast, a few people were too lazy to move, so they sat under the porch to rest.
"Brother Yunxuan, when will we have time to go to the gun shop in town. I only played in the club a few times when I was back home, and there weren't that many guns. Li Xinyu asked.
After taking that pistol yesterday, he remembered it. Seeing that everyone was also idle, he brought it up.
Regarding her brother's suggestion, Li Xinyue raised her hands in favor this time. Who's to say that just men love to play with guns, and girls are also quite interested.
Liu Yunxuan thought about it, it was nothing to do anyway, so he happened to go shopping. Michelle had a hand injury and stayed at home to rest.
The three of them drove Liu Yunxuan's Ford pickup truck to the gun shop in the town.
"Hey, Tom, what are the ranchers going to do?" Liu Yunxuan, who walked into the gun shop, asked the boss Tom.
When I entered the town, I saw a lot of ranchers driving outside. It looks like he's still in a hurry, but just honking to say hello to each other.
"Oh, that's what you're talking about, they went to the slaughterhouse to protest. These days they have heard rumors that the purchase of beef cattle will continue to drive down prices. Tom said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"These damn vampires. Now that they have made enough, why should they drive down the price of beef cattle. Hearing Tom's story, Liu Yunxuan said indignantly.
"Tom, I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't take care of your business now. I'm going to rush over too, you know, there's a lot of beef cattle on my ranch right now. Liu Yunxuan hurriedly said goodbye to Tom and rushed to the slaughterhouse with the Li brothers and sisters.
By the time he arrived, the ranchers in the town had basically arrived, and a few people were chatting together. When they saw Liu Yunxuan coming, they all greeted each other.
Liu Yunxuan also saw Allen, smoking a cigar and talking to a group of people.
Workers at the slaughterhouse are moving chairs outside for everyone to rest. Sheriff Martin and Mayor Gyal are also here.
The harmony of the scene exceeded Liu Yunxuan's expectations. He thought that the protest was not a group of people holding signs and shouting.
Li Xinyue, who was still in high spirits, also felt that he was not interested.
"Hi Martin, Mayor Győr. I'm sorry I'm late. Liu Yunxuan walked over and greeted the two people.
Seeing Liu Yunxuan coming over, Mayor Jer said with a smile on his face, "Andy, I really didn't expect you to rush back, it's really good." You're the biggest rancher in our town. You're still quite heavy in the eyes of these meat companies. ”
"Isn't it late? I thought the protest was over," Liu Yunxuan said suspiciously.
"Oh, that's right," Mayor Jair said as he looked at Liu Yunxuan's puzzled look, "You haven't participated in protests before, have you?" Our protests weren't as intense as they were on TV. ”
Liu Yunxuan was very interested, and Mayor Jer continued, "Some of the protests on TV are extremists or private organizations. ”
"We're not like them, we're just trying to get the attention of beef cattle companies by protesting. So that their purchase price is not so low, after all, we will eventually sell the beef cattle to them. ”
After listening to Mayor Jer's explanation, Liu Yunxuan figured out that this was equivalent to a negotiation meeting. It seems that I am overly nervous.
Liu Yunxuan took the Li family brothers and sisters to the vicinity of Allen, and also found a place to sit down, intending to listen.
After a while, the person in charge of the slaughterhouse walked out of it. Greet these ranchers politely.
Allen, who was on the side, introduced to Liu Yunxuan that this slaughterhouse belongs to a subsidiary of Tyson Foods, and the beef cattle in Palm Springs Town are generally sold to Tyson. Some will also be sold to OSI.
Despite the fact that these meat companies compete with each other on the surface, they work more closely behind the scenes. Whenever they see an opportunity, they will band together to suppress prices.
The person in charge of the slaughterhouse did not say anything, but promised to give feedback to the head office.
In this way, watching the huge protest, it ended hastily in less than half an hour. Liu Yunxuan always felt that this was too child's play.
Just when Liu Yunxuan was about to get in the car and leave, he didn't expect the person in charge to come over.
"Hello, our biggest rancher in Palm Springs, Mr. Andy." The person in charge then introduced himself, "My name is Will, and I am the owner of this slaughterhouse, and I am also the head of Tyson's Texas company. ”
"Hello, Mr. Will, don't you know what you're looking for me?" Liu Yunxuan asked
"That's right, I wonder if Mr. Andy has time, let's sit down and talk?" Will asked.
"Go ahead, Andy, it's okay to talk to them. After all, your farm still has a lot of beef cattle to sell in the future. Alan said to Liu Yunxuan through the car window.
Liu Yunxuan thought to himself that it was okay anyway, but he wanted to see what happened to this Will looking for him.
Follow Will into the slaughterhouse and take a tour by the way.
Because of the high labor cost in the United States, there are not many workers in the slaughterhouse, and the mechanization is more important.
There is a professional labyrinth in the slaughtering area, so that the cattle can see their little friends in the maze, and cannot see the activities of the workers behind, so they will not be afraid, so they will not refuse to move forward.
There is also a humane stun before slaughter. Will said that in the past, he used to use that kind of electric anesthetic stun. Later, this method is now only suitable for free-range cattle and not for fattening cattle.
Because the age of fattening cattle in recent years is relatively low, these young fattening cattle have brittle blood vessels, which are easy to burst when electrolyzing, leaving blood spots or blood spots on the fibers of the meat, affecting the quality of beef.
Nowadays, most of them use non-penetrating stunning, which has the advantage of a high rate of one-time stunning and can also reduce cross-infection of cattle.
Will also said that his slaughterhouse is only a small slaughterhouse, with a daily slaughter capacity of about 1ooo. There are also many large slaughterhouses in the United States, with a daily slaughter capacity of tens of thousands of heads.
For this number, even if Liu Yunxuan has no idea, he knows that compared with domestic slaughterhouses, the slaughter volume of Will's small slaughterhouses is much more than that of domestic slaughterhouses.
Liu Yunxuan did not continue to visit the slaughtering workshop and fine processing workshop inside. To enter those places, you have to go through strict disinfection procedures, which is too troublesome.
Then we came to the fattening yard at the back, which was for the fattening cattle. Ranchers can transport their fattening cattle here in advance. If the price of beef cattle was low at that time, you could store it here for a little longer. It's just a little more expensive to spend the venue.
Liu Yunxuan couldn't help but admire, this old beauty usually giggles, and this business acumen is really smart.
After visiting the slaughterhouse, Liu Yunxuan and the others followed Will into the reception room, and he knew that what was going to be talked about next was the point.
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