Joel Salatin

they lost 50% of their sales in six months after that book was published.

That's the power of an informed citizenry.

People will make good decisions if they get the truth.

But if they don't get the truth, they can't make a decision.

And so the seven big companies came to Teddy Roosevelt.

They said, please help us.

We've got to get credibility with the American consumer again, set up an agency to put a stamp on our products so that the American public will say, okay, this is okay.

And he should have said, you made your bed, now go lie in it.

And if he had...

Independent certifiers would have, you know, triple A for beef or whatever.

But no, he gave them the Food Safety Inspection Service in 1908.

And since the inception of the Food Safety Inspection Service, FSIS, there's been a steady march of.

of additional regulatory structure within the food and especially the meat industry that has added, added, added scale prejudicial regulations

that make it easy for big guys to succeed and hard for little guys to succeed.

So we have lost the neighborhood abattoir.

We have lost this entire infrastructure of our country.

I mean, does anybody think that the supermarket shelves in 2020, in April 2020,

Would we have been would we have had a bit as big a hiccup in our especially meat supply?

Had the country been nourished by three hundred thousand neighborhood abattoirs as opposed to three hundred mega processing facilities around the country?

It's a rhetorical question.