Meat and eggs are degraded by factory farming. Sunlight deprivation, density living, improper grain-based diets, and administration of undesired pharmaceuticals are what farm animals are subjected to in the conventional system.

In grocery markets, these products are misrepresented as foods that have been grown in a way that aligns with nature. Through the use of labels like “free range” and “vegetarian fed”, big companies cast a net that captures more customers through misleading marketing. This process is known as “Greenwashing”.

Big Agriculture (Big Ag) owns and controls this dominant model.

At this time, only 4 companies represent 73% of all beef processing, 54% of all chicken processing and 45% of retail grocery markets².

The 1940s mark the beginning of the decline in U.S. farms. However, farms were getting larger in size³.

Since the 1940s and beyond, farming as a profession has increasingly demanded more and more capital as traditional agricultural methods were phased out by industrialism.

First, crops became commoditized. Then, animals became commoditized. Eventually, government subsidies fueled greater expansion of Big Ag.

The government would pay the industry to produce more corn and soy. This corn would be given to animals in their feed, supporting unbalanced and improper diets.

The animals would then be packaged and potentially misrepresented in the grocery market for customers to be swindled by.

Over time, Big Ag would buy up more and more farms and increase capital.

Big Ag is increasing the percentage of the food system that they own.

Long-gone are the times of proper animal husbandry and land stewardship being the only model in which our food comes. Food has become a means to an end-– filling society’s stomach.

As the cost may seem cheap, Big Ag crumbles without government subsidizes– there is no such thing as cheap food. Big Ag seeks only to maximize profit. The true cost of mass consumption of nutritionally inferior food will be paid in human health.

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