• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    It’s not just the standards. It’s also that we use central planning for these sectors which allows for small farms distributer around the country to survive along with the communities around them. If we let the free market deal with it, it’ll all get reformed into large factory farms with the surplus value extracted away from the local communities and into large capital owners. Then our rural farming communities get plunged into poverty.

    • Lauchs@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      As far as I understand it, that system is also why our eggs still cost normal amounts. (If a farm has to cull their birds because of avian flu, it’s not millions of chickens.)