> You just (unintentionally) said that capitalism is the problem. That's a strawman fallacy [1]. > If people were willing to pay for antibiotic-free meat, the

> You just (unintentionally) said that capitalism is the problem. That's a strawman fallacy [1]. > If people were willing to pay for antibiotic-free meat, then farmers would produce it. Seeing as most farming in the United States is done on megafarms owned by large corporations [2] that have historically shown to be (to put it mildly) lax on their focus on serving healthy and nutritious products to their customers [3], and that "farmers" in the traditional colloquial sense are now only 2% of the population [4], you'll hopefully understand if I say that your statement has little relevance in the United States in 2013. [1] https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman [2] http://thecabin.net/stories/091001/wor_0910010048.shtml http://thecabin.net/stories/091001/wor_0910010048.shtml [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield_Foods#Environmental_and_animal_welfare_record http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield_Foods#Environmental_... [4] http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/ag101/demographics.html http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/ag101/demographics.html