Thomas Massey

You know, there are steakhouses in Washington, D.C.

that cut up more beef than most small processors in Kentucky in a day, right?

Yeah.

Yet they don't have to have a USDA inspector.

And the reason the big corporations, I call it the industrial meat complex, wants a big

once all these regulations on the little guys is to keep them out of the business.

And so my prime act just says, you can sell a steak or a hamburger to your neighbor using a local processor, as long as you comply with the local health requirements and you don't need the USDA involved.

And we got a pilot program for that in the farm bill.

That's Maha.

And the confluence of MAHA with conservatism, right?

Because it's a bipartisan bill.

It's one area where Democrats realize that the little guys are being regulated out of the business.

Yes.

And if they want healthy food, more sustainably raised food, that you've got to break up the meat monopoly, I'll call it.

Now, the White House has recently announced they're going to use the DOJ and the full force of the federal government to break up these big meatpackers.

The problem with that is if you don't let the little meatpackers exist, you're just going to raise the price.

Of course.

Yes.

So I don't wanna ban it.

What we're talking about is the misapplication of it or the mislabeling of it.