Makeup of policies, politics changing amid unified push to find solutions in meat markets WASHINGTON, DC – The world’s largest meat packer considered the makeup of the U.S. meat industry sitting around the table at a recent closed-door and decided they didn’t want to take a seat. JBS USA, a unit of the Brazilian meat conglomerate JBS SA, has left the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) in a surprise move that comes as the group began taking a harder line on concerns about market consolidation. The news came as NCBA and other rancher and producer organizations have begun actively lobbying for more transactional transparency in the beef market – including more investigation by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) into the prices cattle producers are getting versus what packers are getting and what consumers are paying.