So it's the government's role that is primarily to blame. If factory farms had to pay all the costs of doing business that way and their prices were reflected in the market, they would get priced out.
But thanks to lobbying and maybe the illusion that they are doing everyone a favour by keeping meat cheap, bigger problems are being created.
Just another place that the government has no business in. I was reading on Wikipedia how the environment is being trashed mostly because the courts won't allow it to be protected. Their decisions usually favour industries, I don't know enough about it though.
So instead of creating and enforcing environmental regulations, the government gives everyone a free pass.
I know people don't look too far into the future when it comes to the impact of their actions. But we can't have a government that does the same thing. Everything we do has to be geared to the long-term, or life just becomes a casino. Sure you can think you are lucky for a while playing roulette, but eventually you will lose everything.
This is the difference and value of the tribal ways of thinking and living.
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The problem with government too is it is by nature only focused on the short-term. Government's have a term of 4 years or so and they have to choose policies that show immediate benefits, not future ones, if they want to get relected and maintain their support. So it is also a structural problem with the way our political system is organized
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