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> The agribusiness model says: 400 lbs of pork for $500 in feed and
> expenses, $1.25 a pound! Not bad.
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The pastoral model says: 100 lbs of pork for no money at all. Even better!
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This kind of reasoning might be part of a "pastoral homesteading" ideology,
but it is also sound business practice. When your input or cost is zero,
your margin of return is 100%. Plus if you consume the 'result' , yourself,
you pay no added-value expenses in the business chain and you pay no taxes
for your governmental morons to waste.
Agri-bus9ness is suited well for its purpose - to sate the masses. Hungry
people become unruly and then dangerous. We are not a nation of skinny,
angry people -- not yet. But agri-business would collapse without
governmental propping. It is "planned" and "centralized"-- always bad, in
the long run...............