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There's aspects to admire in the ability to provide consistent product to its customers, but it comes at a serious cost. With regulations continuously eroding t
by pstuart 1mo ago
There's aspects to admire in the ability to provide consistent product to its customers, but it comes at a serious cost. With regulations continuously eroding this will only get worse.
My armchair assessment is the best way to push back is for farmers to join together into co-ops and find a middle ground between the efficiency of scale and the concerns of food safety and ethical working conditions.
- bix6 1mo agoLuckily the article includes a PDF with multiple recommendations at the end. https://farmaction.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Policy-Recommendations-Building-a-Competitive-Safe-and-Resilient-Produce-System.pdf https://farmaction.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Policy-Reco...
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- pstuart 1mo agoYour comment would be better served without a snarky "luckily" leading off. The recommendations don't include my suggestion about co-ops, which is a valid addition to the commentary about the OP.
- cyanydeez 1mo agothis sounds a lot like "vote with your wallet" and then you look in 99% of the wallets and it's like, here's a few million dollars vs trillionaires.
- lenerdenator 1mo agoI don't think we're working against trillionaires here. I don't think there's anyone in this situation with that sort of net worth. We're working against the desire to get the basic needs of life (in this case, food) met for the lowest possible price.
- cyanydeez 1mo agohttps://www.farmaid.org/issues/corporate-power/corporate-power-in-ag/ https://www.farmaid.org/issues/corporate-power/corporate-pow...
- arrosenberg 1mo agoThe oligarchs are gutting the regulatory apparatus that stops this stuff from happening.
- zer00eyz 1mo ago> There's aspects to admire in the ability to provide consistent product to its customers Today, if it was a mandate you could slap a label on every vegetable and track it back to the field it was grown. I think most Americans would be shocked as to where their food comes from. I suspect that a lot of Whole Foods shoppers would be a bit miffed to find out that the lettuce in their salad kit also ends up on a macdonalds burger. Everyone is invested in maintaining the illusion. And that collision is rampant across all of food: Pepsi price fixing with Walmart, the price of beef at retail being long decoupled from wholesale / Agri Stats...
- parineum 1mo agoThe illusion is the Whole Foods shopper thinking that the McDonalds food is crap. Great marketing from the "health food" industry making you think that it's McDonalds making you fat. Raw cane sugar (sold to you at a premium markup over the already more expensive production cost) is, by implication, less bad for you.
- cucumber3732842 1mo ago>Today, if it was a mandate you could slap a label on every vegetable and track it back to the field it was grown. I would fully support such a mandate, for meat products too. It would be interesting, giving consumers more information is nearly always better, it opens the door for open source analysis, the 2nd and 3rd order effects would probably be mostly harmless and highly entertaining. >I suspect that a lot of Whole Foods shoppers would be a bit miffed to find out that the lettuce in their salad kit also ends up on a McDonalds burger. They're be too busy being angry that "BNSF Alliance Intermodal Facility, Haslet Texas" is in fact not an avocado farm.
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- yoyohello13 1mo agoI know this sounds crazy, but maybe we can stop eroding regulations. This obsession with 'regulations bad' is going to destroy us all.