Cargill

Anti-Union Monopoly Power Kills An Iconic Milwaukee Industry

May 29, 2026 Michael Rosen, Portside. Educate! Cargill, Meatpackers, Monopolies, union busting, Unions, Wisconsin, Worker Rights

The announcement that Cargill is closing its Menomonee Valley plant and laying off 221 packinghouse workers is just the latest blow to Milwaukee’s industrial working class. It marks the end of more than 150 years of meatpacking in the Menomonee Valley. It is a cautionary tale illustrating how huge, highly concentrated industries dominate the United States economy to the detriment of workers, family farmers and consumers. Meatpacking was one of Milwaukee’s leading industries through much of the 19th and 20th centuries. The industry and city grew together as firms slaughtered, processed and packaged livestock — particularly hogs and cattle — purchased from local farmers and distributed products for regional, national and international markets.

Indigenous Protest Over Amazon Water Decree Enters Second Week

February 6, 2026 Amazon Watch, Intercontinental Cry. Resist! Amazon, Blockade, Cargill, Indigenous Sovereignty, Water Protectors

Santarém, Pará, Brazil – On the 13th day blockading Cargill’s grain terminal in Santarém, Indigenous protestors are demanding in-person dialogue with Brazil’s federal government, following its failure to send representatives to a meeting last week. The arrival of dozens of Munduruku representatives from upstream on the Tapajós River bolstered this key demand to be heard and expanded the 700-strong Indigenous blockade prior to a meeting scheduled for today. The blockade is led by 14 Indigenous peoples from the Lower Tapajós basin and calls for the revocation of Decree 12,600/2025, which incorporates segments on the Tapajós, Madeira, and Tocantins rivers into Brazil’s National Privatization Program (PND).

Amid Layoffs, Cargill’s Owners Given $2B In Stock Buybacks/Dividends

January 19, 2025 Brooks Johnson, Portside. Educate! Cargill, Class Struggle, Minnesota, Worker Rights and Jobs

As Cargill started laying off thousands of employees last month, the company’s owners made $2 billion from stock buybacks and one-time dividends, according to Fitch Ratings. The Minnetonka-based agribusiness announced in December it would lay off 5% of its global workforce, or about 8,000 people, as part of a broader restructuring to counter declining profits. About 475 headquarters jobs were eliminated in Minnesota. At the same time, the private company’s owners — almost entirely members of the billionaire Cargill-MacMillan family — received $500 million from a “special” dividend and a rare $1.5 billion share repurchase completed in December, according to a Fitch Ratings report issued this week.

The Truth About Cargill, The World’s Most Evil Company

November 3, 2022 Lee Camp, Mintpress News. Resistance Report Cargill, Corporatism, Food and Agriculture, Inflation

The biggest supervillains in the world are not human: they’re corporations. And one of those corporations owns nearly our entire food system. This year, food prices have soared and Americans are feeling it. For example, egg prices have doubled since last year to nearly $3 a dozen, which is especially difficult if you make your living as an egg-juggling busker down by the condemned jungle gym. But the supervillain companies that set those prices aren’t struggling at all. The largest one is Cargill. And this year, Cargill’s revenue jumped to a record $165 billion. That’s $30 billion more than the year before. Let’s learn a little more about Cargill. Known to friends as the evilest company in the world – and to enemies as even worse than that – Cargill Inc. is the biggest privately owned company in the U.S., and they own a large chunk of every portion of the food that ends up on your plate.

US High Court Sides With Corporate Giants Nestle And Cargill

June 18, 2021 Julia Conley, Common Dreams. Educate! Cargill, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Human Trafficking, Nestle

Human rights advocates Thursday denounced a Supreme Court decision in favor of the U.S. corporate giants Nestlé USA and Cargill, which were sued more than a decade ago by six men who say the two companies were complicit in child trafficking and profited when the men were enslaved on cocoa farms as children. The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 against the plaintiffs, saying they had not proven the companies' activities in the U.S. were sufficiently tied to the alleged child trafficking. The companies had argued that they could not be sued in the U.S. for activities that took place in West Africa. Neal Katyal, former acting solicitor general under the Obama administration, represented the two companies and also argued that they could not be sued for complicity in child trafficking because they are corporations, not individuals.

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