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In reply to the discussion: Should Factory Farming Be Banned? [View all]Recursion
(56,582 posts)18. Sorry: the ban is an attempt to require that ranchers own rather than rent their cows
I've probably not been clear. The "packer ban" is shorthand for having USDA rule that the cows have to be owned by the ranchers until they are delivered to the slaughterhouse. This gives them some leverage over the meat packers. It would be a good thing for the rule to codify existing industry practice, which is that ranchers own the cows while raising them (some packers are trying to get ranchers to "rent" cows from them each season; a packer ban would forbid that).
It would be good to forbid meat packers from owning cattle because the fact that the ranchers own the cows and can choose packers is the only negotiating power ranchers have with the packers.
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Sorry: the ban is an attempt to require that ranchers own rather than rent their cows
Recursion
Dec 2014
#18
I think it would significanly increase the price. Free range chickens aren't what many people think.
ohnoyoudidnt
Dec 2014
#15
You don't go far enough. It is the Industrial nature of the agriculture that is the central problem
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2014
#33