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"content": "<p>18/🧵</p><p><💬><br /> Another major challenge to such a pivot is that the plant-based industry just can’t match the predictability of the contract meat business. With chickens, you grow just one uniform product in the same way and sell it to one guaranteed buyer. The market for alternatives, be it hemp, mushrooms, or microgreens, is more volatile. <br /></💬></p><p>Not only does pivoting need to be made easier, but this type of issue is always a problem. The contractors traded profit for selling to a monopolistic company. Again, this is a problem with overleveraging and bankers standing on their necks, as part of various "fast growth" scams. A modern debt bondage.</p><p>The solution to their lack of predictable market is, first of all, growing what needs to be grown, and, secondly, taking a lesson from Big Dairy: have the government buy it, preferably instead of dairy. </p><p>To be clear, this problem is super common, there are solutions in many places.</p><p><💬><br />But the biggest constraint contract farmers face in starting a new business is financial. <br /></💬></p><p>Finally! I haven't read the article this far.</p><p><💬><br />contract farmers take out loans worth hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions of dollars, to build the steel barns in which they raise them. Some struggle to ever pay off that debt, since every 10 years or so the big meat companies ask for costly upgrades. Plus, if they get one or two sick flocks, they can fall behind on their loans and get trapped in a cycle of debt. <br /></💬></p><p>the "plantation model"</p><p>It's clearly not going to get better, it's getting worse *even now*. Anti-trust laws would help, but they'd also cause uncertainty. </p><p><💬><br />Garcés, for one, believes debt forgiveness is the critical first step. And to make that first step, she said, “we’re going to need a big piece of policy.” <br /></💬></p><p>I swear I didn't read this before. I just enjoy "live asynchronous commenting".</p><p><💬><br /> That big piece of policy could be the Farm System Reform Act, which was first introduced in 2019 by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), then in 2020 by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA); they both reintroduced the legislation in 2021. The act would place a moratorium on new factory farm construction, phase out factory farms by 2040, and create a $10 billion annual fund to help factory farm operators transition to raising animals in higher-welfare settings, growing specialty crops, or pay off debt. It has no short-term prospect of passing, but it’s important for policymakers to start the discussion now. <br /></💬></p><p>Just to be clear, if such a thing passed, the whining about "cost of living" with regards to the price of animal products would be huge. You can imagine all those "chicken nuggets" memes becoming right-wing populist memes, probably anti-semitic in some way.</p><p><💬><br /> There are other government incentives that could help, Newton and Blaustein-Rejto found, like subsidies and tax credits for land use conservation, including allowing some farmland to rewild. <br /></💬></p><p>That's the "hostage policy".</p><p>Not much else worthy in the article. </p><p>If you like this topic, there's a nice site and podcast that goes into such things, and here's an article worth reading to get a sense of it: <a href=\"https://tabledebates.org/blog/promises-regenerative-agriculture-how-lessons-past-bring-words-warning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">tabledebates.org/blog/promises</span><span class=\"invisible\">-regenerative-agriculture-how-lessons-past-bring-words-warning</span></a> </p><p>They have a lot of educational/introduction materials.</p>",
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