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[–] RegalPotoo 89 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Where I'm from, there was a huge egg shortage for a while because ~5 years ago the government passed new laws to try and make things marginally less horrible for chickens. The entire industry decided that they were going to do... basically nothing, then the rules came into force and there was lots of winging from industry people that 5 years want enough time, and how hard it was not being able to sell all this product that they kept producing for some reason

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That wasn't honest incompetence. That was a failed, organized attempt to force a repeal.

[–] madcaesar 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Smells like too big to fail fuckery

[–] Mojeezy 8 points 3 months ago

Smells like too big to fail… cluckery…(⌐■_■)

[–] RegalPotoo 6 points 3 months ago

Oh totally. There was an election and a change of government to one that is typically more business friendly, so I guess the hope was they'd roll back the rules but they were actually pretty popular with the public in general

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds familiar, living in the Netherlands where farmers had years and subsidies to reduce reliance on livestock for the environment, then protested when the rules came into force and they hadn't used the time or subsidies to prepare.

[–] RegalPotoo 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is New Zealand, but yeah, basically the same deal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I thought so...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

there was lots of winging

heh