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Yeah chickens dying or quarantine concerns would be real shit, but 'concerns of overproduction' when a natural resource isn't being wasted (the chickens were still being kept alive, right?) Is just so dumb to me.
it sounds dumb, but it happens. Apple farmers in rural america were about to lose their shit after producing way too many apples. The state of west virginia, iirc decided to buyback all of the excess. And donated it to foodbanks or something.
It's literally lost revenue for large scale farming. That's just how shitty it is.
Capitalist nonsense, and good on west Virginia for doing basically the right thing.
pretty much