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New York Bill Aims to Ban New Mega-Dairies
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Small farms produce less pollution per kg of meat? Sounds unbelievable.
It sounds unbelievable because it's just simply wrong.
Larger farms are more efficient. Each cow will always produce the same amount of manure, where you put the fence between them doesn't really matter. If there's 2 million cows in the state you get 2 million cows worth of manure to deal with, you can't gerrymander that away.
Economies of scale apply to farms, but the waste they produce isn't going to change much.
There are a lot of valid reasons to prefer small farms to large ones. The animals generally get better treatment on small farms, you get a better quality product from smaller farms. But the reality is the average age of farmers in this country is approaching retirement. Meaning a fair number of farmers are over that age. We don't have the labor in this country to manage a lot of small farms, and that's before we forcibly deported the people doing 90% of the labor.
Upstate NY and pretty much everywhere outside of developed metropolitan areas have gone MAGA and have been voting Republican against their own interests for years.
This is what they voted for- to shoot themselves in the foot.
I'm not sure I see your logic here. The bill is sponsored by two Democrats from NYC.
Just commenting re: the manufactured shortage of labor. I don't disagree that nearly all agricultural industries will be affected, but this result seems like the outcome of short-sighted voters, more than anything else.