That's a very good question, and obviously when you mass-produce anything, the producers can usually lower their costs.
I agree with you 100% that sometimes the quality from the smaller producers is better. I think buying locally is very important, especially after COVID-19.
How we tackle bringing those prices down, or keeping those prices down, is a very good question.
When you look at industrializing food production, like what we have done in the meat production facilities here, then you introduce the other risks that go along with that. These facilities will have up to a 1,000 people working in one plant on a shift, and if something goes wrong, such as a virus that affects people, then it's going to spread pretty rapidly.
That's going to have a negative impact on the food production in our country. We've had situations previously with the Excel beef plant, where they had a large E. coli outbreak, and that plant shut down for months. That plant was then bought by somebody else because of that.
You have to weigh the balance, I think, when it comes to producing food really cheaply and producing food that has that quality you refer to.