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All 10 of the largest U.S. meat and dairy companies have lobbied against environmental and climate policies, resisting climate regulations, including rules on greenhouse gases and emissions reporting. This is according to a study by New York University, which examined the political influence of the 10 largest meat and dairy companies in the United States.

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[–] mob 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are they top 10 of dairy, meat, or both? What share of the market do they hold in each respective field, and combined fields? It's pretty arbitrary for claiming 100% of. Would you consider the same concept acceptable elsewhere with different subject like..

100% of Rappers and Democrats voted for Kanye in 2020. Top 10 selling rappers and Democrats on Spotify voted for Kanye.

Obviously I made that up... but I think you'd consider it dishonest clickbait.

[–] CharlesDarwin 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I did look around earlier and saw that the top 4 companies controlled more than 50% of the market...add in the other six, and that is only going to increase.

https://www.iatp.org/companies-dominating-market-farm-display-case

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I agree, which is why we should have a problem with articles that pretend the rest of farmers are the same as them. It just helps them because nobody is left to side with small farms.

I mean, how about this. Did you know that many of the meat and dairy subsidies that people get up-in-arms about are paid as meat- or dairy-specific taxes by farmers, and only the bigger farms reap the benefit?

Those big farms profit from the fact that they and vegans have a common enemy... small meat/dairy farms.

[–] mob 0 points 1 year ago

How do you think that translates to Meat and Dairy market? I'd imagine adding more market, that 50% is going to shrink. Definitely makes that 100% in the title seem a lot click baitier

[–] eskimofry 3 points 1 year ago

They are 100% of the 10 companies this investigation started with.