The ag industry doesn't care about what some people would like to do for a living, they care about making money. That's why they shut out small operations deli

The ag industry doesn't care about what some people would like to do for a living, they care about making money. That's why they shut out small operations deliberately rather than supporting them. As an example, the big pork producers own all the pork processing plants. They set the rules, and the rules require very uniform hogs. So small farms who grow heritage pork breeds on natural diets instead of growing the single commercial pork breed on a corn+soy diet can't get their hogs slaughtered and processed. Everything in agriculture has been massively consolidated into a small number of huge corporations who exert tremendous influence in trying to make it even more consolidated. Small farms have to market directly to consumers and jump through lots of hoops to work around legal barriers lobbied for by huge agricorps. We end up spending more time as food salesmen than as farmers, which is far less enjoyable.