MAHA was a smoke and mirrors thing created to win votes, it clearly seems. Some of it I don’t care about (you were always on your own with seed oils and that’s just the way it is) but umm … omg?

Today Trump's USDA nominee, Brooke Rollins, told Congress that she will force states to allow the sale of pork from crated pigs.

States banned these sales to stop animal cruelty. The conservative Supreme Court upheld those bans.

Only pork industry lobbyists want this change. https://t.co/pAmnCWSsKG

Lewis Bollard

MAHA was a smoke and mirrors thing created to win votes, it clearly seems. Some of it I don’t care about (you were always on your own with seed oils and that’s just the way it is) but umm … omg? https://x.com/Lewis_Bollard/status/1882585377401459107

The industry is so consolidated, the margins are so minimal - that the big companies need to fight for anything that prevents added costs.

Industrial pork is depressing AF, and tastes like nada

Unfortunately the market pits pork v beef v chicken.

And the chicken industry has led the race to the bottom price wise for 3-4 decades.

It’s depressing.

Yet our society can afford decent pork on scale.

See also layers

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The industry is so consolidated, the margins are so minimal - that the big companies need to fight for anything that prevents added costs.

Industrial pork is depressing AF, and tastes like nada

Unfortunately the market pits pork v beef v chicken.

And the chicken industry has led the race to the bottom price wise for 3-4 decades.

It’s depressing.

Yet our society can afford decent pork on scale.

See also layers

https://www.porkbusiness.com/markets/market-reports/cash-feeder-pig-prices-average-69-35-4-98-last-week-0

https://www.porkbusiness.com/news/industry/good-bad-and-ugly-when-it-comes-pork-industry-right-now

Growing veggies for the fine folks of Southeastern Massachusetts, w/ a focus on nutrient quality. Always interested in the evolution of digital payments.  🎩 

isn't that a contradiction? a competitive industry has thin margins, a consolidated industry (e.g. monopoly) does not

two non-mutually exclusive ways to solve this afaik:
1/ consumer education (about the health benefits of animals raised with QoL)
2/ regulation

i believe eggs have actually been a bit of a success story with the various ratings related to sq ft of free space etc (pasture raised vs cage free vs ..)