Who could have seen this coming except for people warning about it for decades

We keep 10,000 chickens in a single huge building whose floor is literally layers of their old shit, give them just enough room to stand there and not move around, and leave it there without any environmental controls through the hottest days of the year. What do you mean disease is prevalent?

Then, when you try to legislate any kind of standard for humane livestock treatment, the farmers throw a hissy fit and block all the roads with their tractors.

also "meat eaters: 😲"

As a meat eater, it's shit like this which is why I've been buying more vegetarian shit. Every week there's a new food recall. People are getting real sick and dying.

Yeah, okay buddy. I suppose next you're gonna tell me climate change is real, huh?

This should read as:

Regulators: allows the meat industry to put creatures in the filthiest conditions possible

disease starts spreading and affecting the industry

Regulators: 😧

It is in part a consumer issue. Consumers want things as cheaply as possible, and companies that produce as cheaply as possible sell more product. We've seen the same issue with apparel; America wants cheap clothing, and so the mills in the US have largely closed, and most production has been moved overseas in order to make the final products cheap enough.

And while it's partly a consumer issue, the fact that wages haven't kept up with productivity--that is, more and more money is being skimmed out of the system by investors and executives rather than going to the workers--has been the driver towards making consumer goods more and more cheaply, simply because people have less purchasing power.

You mean to tell me that industries sacrifice long term consequences for short term profit?!

shockes Pikachu face

I beg of you, just eat beans it's so much easier than trying to fix industrial meat agriculture. There will never be a fix for it that makes ut affordable and green.

Consumers: only buy the cheapest regardless of how it's produced, ensuring a race to the bottom

Producers: lower standards to increase production so they can sell meat for the lowest cost

Consumers when they find out what that entails: shocked pikachu face

As always, nobody could have seen this coming. Of course.

Lower supply with a stable demand means an increase in profits. Doesn't matter what decreases the supply. I tell you what.

Is mad cow coming back?

It's one of a few reasons why I only eat halal / kosher. Animal treatment from birth to slaughter is far more humane than that of how the heathens treat and slaughter animals.

Yeah yeah downvote me, heathens.

Meat industry: have to ramp up production because fucking idiotic people continue to breed uncontrollably and unsustanably

disease starts spreading and affecting the industry

Smug-ass cultist vegans: MuSt Be ThE mEaT eAtErS!!!1 Come on, my wife Moon Seashell, we need to get you pregnant again because our 14 malnourished kids isn't enough!