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America is a factory. A money factory. Workers are exploited in virtually every industry to churn out as much product as possible as quickly as possible so that the bosses can increase profit margins and talk about productivity to the shareholders.
Just cogs in rich people's machines and machinations.
I thought the internet would help us overthrow our corporate masters but instead it's just shit posting and racist social media.
The china trade war destroyed small soybean farmers.
Large soybeans > small soybeans anyway.
factory farming is far more economically viable - real, in person/family farming is really hard work. most people cant do it unless they're born into a farming family & many choose not to continue. tractors, combines, etc are not cheap, and a bad year might ruin you financially. it's far simpler and easier for everyone (in the supply chain) to get a corporation to do the farming.
The choice isn't between multinational argocorp factory farms and suburban/urban neighborhoods each creating their own co-op and raising animals for food.
But setting that aside, your view of what's economically viable completely skips over the significant negative health impacts on society that American factory farming practices produce, and how those costs are borne in other areas of the economy.
And this is all just health and economic concerns, we haven't even touched the morality of the horrific conditions the animals are raised in, but frankly that just makes me really depressed so I'll leave that alone.