You may be right for once.  I don't know what you think as you twist and turn like a top.  What you do state is bogus as your attempt to explain every event as manipulation is a total joke and fraud.  It is always manipulation for your convenience to cover for your ignorance of economics and the marketplace.  Once again show me where I ever said "price elasticities were constant".  Another blatant lie on your part-par for you.  As I have previously stated I have forgotten more about supply/demand analysis then you will ever know. Remember you did not even now the level or trend in  per capita supply of beef or the other meats.  Explain for every reader of this forum once again how you without that knowledge can conclude prices are manipulated. Dance, twist and divert, as usual.  No reader will wait for an answer as you have yet to answer any question posed to you.       

The $26 per head for Tyson was not my number it was the figure derived from subpoenaed financial records for the period encompassed by the Pickett trial.  Additionally, the time-frames are completely different.  Again you are wrong on the facts.  Do you have any clue as to the annual operating efficiency gains scored annually by IBP, independent of the cost of cattle?  Forget it, I know as you don't have a clue of that enviable record. You continue to fool only yourself.