The Industrial Agricultural Complex

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1. Great … so I now have to worry about BIG Pork along with BIG Oil and BIG Pharma …

2. Then they bribe the government to go after the remaining independents for not treating their hogs like a protected class. Free range, open air, hog farms bad, boxed in, bad air, bad food good.

3. L- How much farmland in Canada has been bought by China(by proxy), already?

   1. farmland, mining operations, shipping, communications (remember the push for Chirese G5?), they also apparently own a number of unnamed MPs.
      ALL THIS BECAUSE OF ONE MAN THE TURRRRRRRDEAU AND THATS BECAUSE OF MILLIONS OF BRAIN DAMAGED VOTERS WHO DEMAND THIS ALL BE DONE

4. oh look. now Mr Kennedy is headed for a post in Donald’s cabinet.
   l wonder what all those pigs think of that.

5. The bigger they are, the bigger they can now fall.

6. But, but, but … I like my pork after it’s been pampered living comfortably, lazing around the factory farm. Nothing to do but lie against the wall of its box. Mmmmm mmm mmm … tender pork.

7. So, how do you weigh up the negatives that RFK Jr points out vs. pork at 2c /lb instead of the 60c /lb it was before?
   If you went back to the good old days pork would be 30x dearer and that would hit the poorer worse.
   (just asking – no particular axe to grind)

   1. His 2 cents per pound is nonsense. Everything else he said is valid.

   2. As soon as the big corporations get a monopoly, or near monopoly/cartel of like minded corporations, the prices will skyrocket. The game is to drive out the competition with aid of politicians and price manipulation, create a monopoly/cartel, dramatically increase the price because there is no longer any independent competitors, pay off politicians (financially or politically) to keep the monopoly in place.

      Canada’s marketing boards, banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, etc. function in a similar manner.

      1. Read the farm papers, every week in the Ontario Farmer minimum 1 article on a price fixing lawsuit in the USA. Mostly in the meat trade. Here in Canada we do our price fixing the legal way….

         1. I’ve read that a good description of the Canadian economy is that it is basically made up of groups of cartels that are protected by government at the expense of consumers. It’s why we have some of the most expensive food, domestic flight prices, bank fees and mobile phone prices compared to other countries. When I was researching foreign countries to live in after retirement, I was surprised at how much lower these prices are in other places. Canadians are getting price gouged, pay crazy high fees and are over taxed in so many different ways.

            1. the absolute best and truthful post of the year

   3. was he not referring to cost of production? and to et it that low the conditions the pigs suffer? not like moseying out to the mud bath is it.

   4. There are a Billion Pork eaters in Communist China … gotta slaughter the hogs to feed communists

      1. And there are a couple of million pork-barrelers in Canada.

   5. Exactly this. Its called economies of scale. If it were possible for organic free-range hog farms to survive selling $30/lb luxury bacon to AWFULs, then there would still be plenty of organic free-range hog farms.

      I know a number of rural “Conservatives” (big and small C) who adamantly claim that agriculture is different and therefore it needs needs needs government intervention and marketing boards and cartels and all the things that enrich farmers at the expense of consumers.

      The one thing that’s actually a bad thing in this video is Smithfield selling itself to China. I’d be in favour of a “no foreign ownership” clause in corporate law. If China wants pork it can buy pork at prices set by American producers.

      1. But, of course, at the rate of their own choosing. Chop chop!