[735] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
Re: the CBS cattle story
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Krom)
Wed Nov 29 12:54:15 1995
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
From: krom@media.mit.edu (Matthew Krom)
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 95 12:53:21 -0500
So, the story about the beef industry on the news was actually about the
squabble between ranchers and meat-packers. The ranchers are being paid less
and less as the industry becomes larger. The story didn't point out that
this is the same pattern affecting many small farmers as factory farms have
become the overwhelming source of animals for food. The story mentioned that
the top 3 meat-packers control 81% of the market.
Ironically, the slant of the story was not that consumers should be paying
more for meat (as John Robbins writes), but that meat should cost less, based
on the ranchers' getting paid less. !
-Matt
krom@media.mit.edu
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