Jason, there was no conspiracy huh?   I guess that is how you define conspiracy.  You claim out of one side of your mouth that if there is but two buyers, was it, then there was a competitive market.  When Canada lost its biggest buyer producers in Canada got a taxpayer handout.   Is that not socialism?  You posted before that they had more than two buyers. 

You might want to give the value of your investment up for nothing, but many people don't.  If a rancher has lived and worked on his ranch and paid for it so what if he doesn't have to work as hard as a manual laboror that has no investment. 

Saying there is no conspiracy when all the little rules, regulatory agencies, and powers of government are being harnassed by the big boys is a little naive.  Can you not see the forest for the trees?   Wake up.

You need to do some of that reading I suggested.