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Oh please, don't be so melodramatic. What's stopping the other dairy producers from integrating vertically?
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Being farmers, they don't have a lot of free cash laying around to buy the capital required.
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What did he do that nobody else can do?
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Buy his way into the industry.
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Why don't you understand that the industry already is controlled by a monopoly?
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Why don't you understand that this industry is already controlled, but not by a monopoly (unless you consider the government a monopoly), and it is regulated for a very good set of reasons.
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Why in the hell are you advocating higher prices? His milk is CHEAPER.
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No, his milk just doesn't include the various fees and dues you find included in the prices of other milk produced in volumes that exploit economies of scale. He avoids these fees and dues by exploiting loopholes put in place to protect small local operators from being burdened by these fees. Now that he's a big, producer, though, he doesn't deserve the artifical protection of not having to pay to particiapte.
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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.
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It's only better because it exploits regulatory loopholes. Modify the loophole so it can't be exploited in this way and his milk suddenly costs just as much as everyone elses.