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I cannot find fault in your reasoning, except for two:Cannonpointer » 11 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ I get free tongue, tail, heart and liver from several different mom and pop processors (non USDA) in my area. They are legally constrained against selling it, so they give it away.
The heart and liver are mostly for the dogs and chickens (I will cook liver and onions occasionally, but not at anything near the pace at which I acquire them). The tongue is mostly for me - I consider it one of the best parts of the cow. Everyone likes the tail. It goes for 8 bucks a pound in the supermarket.
IF I HAD MY WAY, this would not be happening - happy circumstance though it is for me. But it is happening, and it is happening for a reason. Capitalism locks competition out of the market, using the government gun. Well, if life is going to give me those lemons, I am going to make lemonade. By the way, the beef is top quality, as the people who raise it are raising it for themselves and their families, on grass and not in feed lots, using old school stewardship.
1) I despise liver - yes, it's the most nutrient dense part of the animal (something "carnivore diet" hipsters will always broach), and it also processes all the waste of the animal. It's like adding radioactive saltwater to your heavy metal detox smoothie.
It has a "metallic" taste FOR A GOOD REASON.
2) Using Marxist theory, the monopolization/oligopolization of farming was INEVITABLE. Even had "Big Ag" been barred from the halls of Congress, there would still be an ongoing effort within the "free market" to consolidate everything under - as the DNC might say - "A BIG TENT [HOMO/***] PARTY!"
Now if you say this wasn't the case back when the Phoenicians were trading with the Hittites, I will reply:
1) Capital has accumulated at a pace unseen in human history since the 1800s, so you can't compare the modern era "free markets" with "free enterprise" of the past
2) Kings actually cared about their subjects' welfare [ contrary to lies by the (((usual suspects))) ] so any effort to monopolize farming would have been thwarted by the monarchy in 300 BC.