It kind of does because when you're selling directly to your customers, neighbors and local businesses, a President that randomly shuts off trade w/China or sets tarrifs/quotas doesn't mean much to you. We just have to sit here and eat shit because politics turned off soy market.
3/ * the FDA and USDA aren't great, but don't significantly make the problem worse. I can sell my neighbor a half pig, or I can send my entire pig to the local butcher and have it processed for less than I could butcher it myself,
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4/ so the "buy pork and beef from neighbors" argument falls down because we can ALREADY DO THAT. * economies of scale from train transportation of live animals, refrigerated transportation of cut meat, etc. was revolutionary 140 years ago. Far pre-FDA / USDA.
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5/ * Family farms are terribly inefficient, which is why they have been collapsing in number / growing in size into agribusinesses for 140 years. * Feedlots and cat 3 tractors are not diseconomies of scale, but economies of scale.
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