I think the answer could be found in the OIG report on GIPSA. If reporting violations does not even get an investigation, why do it? Why are we allowing these regulatory agencies to say "there is no proof" of a violation when it is their responsibility to find that proof and they are not looking.
There has to be some credibility in our regulatory agencies and there just isn't. No one is being held accountable. On top of that, we have producers like Tam, Jason, MRJ and others who first of all don't know how to logically read some of the reports by the "experts" or the "investigators" and defend packer actions based on them. The Alberta report is just an example. It is funny to me that these are the kind of people that are "leaders" in the cattle business in the old cattle organizations in the U.S. and in Canada. With this kind of leadership, the cattle business will continue to be manipulated for the interests of packers, and not producers.