This is a relatively uninformed thought/analysis, but I would guess that the US meat subsidies are given to all of the factory farms, and because they only 'com

This is a relatively uninformed thought/analysis, but I would guess that the US meat subsidies are given to all of the factory farms, and because they only 'compete with each other' and you don't really have, say, an Italian grocer trying to sell meat here, it's valid? The question from me would then be, do subsidized meat vendors compete with farmers small enough that are selling individually on a farmer's market level? Does the subsidizing occur further up the chain, with tax rebates when purchasing cows? So subsidized pricing would not be illegal as long as it isn't allowing for predatory pricing.