nc ks | reformedbanker - 11/21/2024 12:03
Here is my hot take on animal and crop. It's super simple. Regulate only based upon proven science. Let the consumer demand dictate the rest.
Someone wants to pay extra for cage free eggs, great. Someone wants to pay extra for the grass-fed organic beef, great. The packaging has pretty colors too. I have no problem paying a little extra to get a steer butchered that I know was finished the way I like.
What I believe is too far is when I hear the "value added" side spreading unfounded lies about traditional products. I'm no attorney but that cuts close to libel. Disney got the pleasure of settling their case with BPI by cutting them a $177 million check.
I wish the corn growers association would stop spending my dollars on a NASCCAR race sponsorship and spend more trying to build trust with the consumer that tradition Ag is safe and we are constantly researching to ensure it stays that way.
I agree with most of what you said, but take offense that we regulate based on science. Whose science? That's a slippery slope. Test to make sure there are no pathegens in stuff that enters the supermarket but beyond that leave everyone alone. I am just as much for the guy that butchers his own beef and sells his eggs and milk to neighbors that choose to buy from him as I am for the guy with a 10k head feedlot that sells to packers. Leave them both alone. But what I see commonly is the small producer starts to malign the bigger guy and his products and even starts asking government to curtail the bigger guys and maybe even base it on 'science'. If the small guys have a product that consumers want and will pay for, why does he need to stop the competition? |
How many arms this guy have?
