In Greeley, Colorado, 3,800 workers at the JBS beef plant are entering their third week on strike. They are fighting for higher wages and safer line speeds. But JBS USA has a different plan. The company is already shifting production and preparing to replace the human workforce with automated robotic butchery. This strike is the first of its kind in forty years, and it represents a turning point for the American table.

The meatpacking industry is using the strike as a cover to hike prices while their profits continue to climb. They are starving the workers and the consumers simultaneously. By moving toward Corporate Energy Secession, these firms are building private power grids to run their automated fleets, leaving the public to rot on a decaying electrical grid. The Greeley strike is the front line of a war against human labor. If JBS succeeds in automating the slaughterhouse, the last blue-collar path to a middle-class life will be severed. We are being sold a future where the food is processed by machines we cannot afford, powered by energy we cannot access, and sold at prices that ensure only the top ten percent can eat.