Why Do We Pay Farmers to Grow Food Nobody Eats? | Joel Salatin

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Centralized agriculture insists that strict federal oversight is a settled requirement for food safety and market stability. Joel Salatin, co-owner of Polyface Farms, argues that looking closely at soaring beef prices, local meat production, and farm economics reveals regulatory hurdles that destroy small slaughterhouses and distort true free-market prices.

Salatin addresses why high beef prices persist, noting recent droughts, aging farmers, the length of the cattle cycle, and the closing of Mexico’s borders. Far from being against market efficiency, he argues that resilient, local production would more accurately respond to market fluctuations and supply shortages.

In this interview, Salatin answers critical questions: How do massive corn and soybean subsidies skew beef prices and drive small cattle operations out of business? What do USDA inspection exemptions like the Prime Act reveal about intrastate commerce and food safety? And why is nature’s model of scaling through duplication far more effective than industrial centralization?

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