Blog #2 Contradiction.

In Chapter 6 we learn about the cattle industry and the major companies that own the main slaughterhouses. It had went from a buisness to an over all monopoly. I.B.P was attempting to conduct business with butchers in New York but they were union butchers so they did not accept the packaged meat that was already cut and made by non-union laborers. Instead of conducting buisness they payed the mob 5 cents off of every ten pounds to force to butchers to purchase the meat from IBP. That is not business, that is saying you buy my products or you're gonna get hurt physically and finacially. That is a contradiction, you can't call yourself a buisness when you're running a meat market dictatorship. "Currier J. Holman agreed to pay the five-cent commision, and the leaders of the New York's butchers union promptly withdrew their objections to IBP's boxed beef"(Schlosser 155). Forced to buy their beef with a smile.