How about instead of nationalization, just make it easier for farmers and ranchers to sell directly to consumers. My parents buy beef by the half cow, it's lik

How about instead of nationalization, just make it easier for farmers and ranchers to sell directly to consumers. My parents buy beef by the half cow, it's like a coop in MO. It comes out to about $3.69 /lbs. It is a lot of money of up front but much cheaper than the grocery store and much better quality than the average store bought beef (its not prime but its still good). It is hard for the farmers to do this any other way because in order for the farmer to sell to a store or local shop, there has to be an inspector on sight with the cow is slaughters, when it is processes, and when it is packed. This is impossible for a small time operation to do so they have to either do these coops or sell to the big guys that have the inspectors in the building. The whole process is so wrapped in government regulations that it will always lend itself towards a few big players because they are big enough to have an entire staff of USDA inspectors in the building, a local butcher cannot. It would be pretty easy to solve and actually save the government money. Inspect butcher shops and meat processors like restaurants, i.e. Annual and spot inspections of the facility and their processes, and make the processor put the information on the packaging of the meat.