Wednesday, November 22, 2017

We voted for Trump because he's for the little guy

[A] a Trump administration decision to block proposed agriculture regulations may blow up [small turkey farmers' prospects], preserving the multibillion-dollar meat industry’s power over the smaller turkey farmers.

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Obama-era rules that had yet to take effect would have given smaller farmers more power to set the terms of their deals with massive meat companies, empowering the growers to sue and better define abusive practices by processors and distributors under federal law. Trump’s Agriculture Department killed two of the proposed rules, one of which would have taken effect in October.

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Distributors and large poultry growers, for their part, have praised the decision to ditch the proposed Obama-era regulations, which were developed under USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration and are commonly referred to as the GIPSA rules. If allowed to go into effect, they "would have opened the floodgates to frivolous and costly litigation," said Mike Brown, president of the National Chicken Council.

Meanwhile, turkey farmers have fewer and fewer choices about where to sell their birds. Contract farmers account for 69 percent of turkey production, according to the USDA. As of 2011, 58 percent of turkey slaughter was controlled by just four companies: Butterball, Jennie-O, Cargill, and Farbest Foods.

  Politico
I just find it so hard to sympathize, even though I know I should. These Trump voters who thought he would work for them, just because he said so, obviously didn't bother to look into his personal dealings with contractors and other businessmen. They were too crazed about the possibility of having a woman president, I guess. 

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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