I understand about economic cycles, competition, creativity and innovation, but when it comes to agrifood and agriculture in general, you also need to consider environmental factors. This is one area where environmental factors must come into play. Coming back to the hog sector, instead of making it a strong and competitive industry, and therefore a highly concentrated one, mega hog houses are being developed and meat is being transported for consumption and the liquid manure is being kept and is becoming increasingly hard to spread. So there is a major environmental imbalance in the farm sector.
On February 15th, 2007. See this statement in context.