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Originally Posted by 1010011010
What more properly serves the purpose of the government? To ensure a free-market exists for all products with no accountability to market stability... or to ensure that the people have a relatively assured supply of food at steady, predictable prices?
"I'm hungry, mommy. Why don't we have anything to eat?"
"Market instability, honey, go back to bed. Save your energy."
Also, it's not like this guy started with a couple of cows on his family Farm in Iowa and has grown into the vertically integrated dairy powerhouse he is today by Good Ol' American Go-Get-It-iveness. This guy made a bunch of money elsewhere, saw a way to avoid a bunch of artificially imposed fees and restrictions in the dairy industry, and bought his way into the field exploiting the previously identified loophole to undercut competition while still making a profit. So they're closing the loophole he's exploiting so he, like any other large milk producer, has to pay his dues for quality control inspections and health agency oversight.
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Oh please, don't be so melodramatic. What's stopping the other dairy producers from integrating vertically? What did he do that nobody else can do? Why don't you understand that the industry already is controlled by a monopoly? Why in the hell are you advocating higher prices? His milk is CHEAPER. The article states that there are three other companies that do what he does.
All this is is big businesses bitching about being beaten by a guy with a better system.