RobertMac said:
OT, looks like you have some new supporters. The problems with USDA started long before "this Administration"...remember where Tyson is headquartered. USDA and NCBA were carrying the large packer's water even long before Clinton! Change will have to start with producers...selling to the same people and expecting something different isn't going to change anything. These large packers are still out to eliminate their small and medium packer competition...we have to save them by selling to them and using them to process our cattle. Consumers want to buy from producers, buy local, and/or buy from trusted branded beef programs. These small and medium plants can survive if we support them...and we must!!!
Oh I'm aware much of this was happening with Clinton...Just like Greenspan once said- "he was really a neocon"....But it has been fasttracked and magnified under Bush 10 fold - with an administration thats non regulation, no oversight, big business police themselves policy that has diffused thruout the entire administration- putting the International traders and Multinational and Large Corporate world ahead of the interests of the US and US products and American workers and small entrepreneurs...
And its my belief we are seeing the results of it now...