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 Post subject: "... and they wanted it cheap."
PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 12:53 pm 
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An interesting look at In Meat We Trust where historian Maureen Ogle Argues [that] We Got The Meat Industry We Asked For.

Almost any discussion can eventually lead to a 'follow the money' scenario with the eventual question of where the consumer fits in to the battle of low prices vs [fill-in-the-blank]. This one is more interesting than most. I may have to search for the book.

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"Ultimately, Ogle finds there is a fundamental disconnect in the way many of us view meat. We want it; we want it cheaply; we want it made in a place where we don't have to deal with the sights and sounds of slaughtering animals; and we don't want it to come from factory farms. Something, Ogle says, has to give."

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 Post subject: Re: "... and they wanted it cheap."
PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 1:39 pm 
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I also think we've been conditioned to expect cheap things by the people who make things cheaper. It's a rather vicious cycle.

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
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