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Who could have seen this coming except for people warning about it for decades (i.imgflip.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

This should read as:

Regulators: allows the meat industry to put creatures in the filthiest conditions possible

disease starts spreading and affecting the industry

Regulators: ๐Ÿ˜ง

[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

More like:

Meat industry: lobbies regulators and focuses on profits above all else despite every warning against it

disease starts spreading and affecting the industry

Meat industry: ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

[โ€“] Fedizen 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is spot on. The meat industry for years has been trusted because of regulation. The moment you take away regulation you take away trust and start a race to the bottom. Ask any of these other deregulated industries:

-News and Television -Deregulated in the 90s

-Boeing and commercial aircraft - Merged unchallenged in the 90s and the FAA allowed "self reporting"

-Banks - Deregulated in the 90s.

[โ€“] gdog05 1 points 6 months ago

This really should read as:

Republicans defund regulation budgets to appease meat producers' donations.

Regulators: "there's three of us"

Meat producers: "we have no incentive to follow existing laws and standards which were lax as hell to begin with."