<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Is Tyson trying to drive its biggest chicken competitor out of business?]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by minnenvironment http://www.grist.org/article/meat-wagon-fowl-play/ Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:12:38 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/meat-wagon-fowl-play/1 Tyson

The fact that tyson is allowed to produce three types of meat is bad enough in terms of monopoly issues.

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The fact that tyson is allowed to produce three types of meat is bad enough in terms of monopoly issues.

]]> Comment #2 by Pangolin http://www.grist.org/article/meat-wagon-fowl-play/ Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:35:14 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/meat-wagon-fowl-play/2 Chop Tyson up...

into pieces small enough to fail.  If we haven't learned the lesson of monopoly economics this year we are never going to learn it. Putting that much of the US food supply in the hands of one corporation is idiocy.

Put the Carbon Back

]]> Chop Tyson up...

into pieces small enough to fail.  If we haven't learned the lesson of monopoly economics this year we are never going to learn it. Putting that much of the US food supply in the hands of one corporation is idiocy.

Put the Carbon Back

]]> Comment #3 by Damien http://www.grist.org/article/meat-wagon-fowl-play/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:52:04 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/meat-wagon-fowl-play/3 Sounds like OPEC

By which I mean of course:

Organization of Poultry Exploiting Companies

Forgive the pun, but the monopoly economics sounded too much like big oil to pass up.  

]]> Sounds like OPEC

By which I mean of course:

Organization of Poultry Exploiting Companies

Forgive the pun, but the monopoly economics sounded too much like big oil to pass up.  

]]> Comment #4 by LimitsToGrowth http://www.grist.org/article/meat-wagon-fowl-play/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:06:40 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/meat-wagon-fowl-play/4 Monopsony

It's also not good that Tyson could become a monopsony too. Monopsony: "the market condition that exists when there is one buyer". (I learned about that on Grist. :-))

Monopoly and monopsony, either way it doesn't bode well for the consumer.

But a monopsony is worse for us and small farmers. What corners will farmers have to cut in order to meet the price Tyson would be willing to pay?

On the other hand it could encourage small farmers to go organic or truly natural and sell local.

All I know for sure is that it won't get any better for us when we have an additional population the size of Florida to feed in just four more years. (And the world has an additional population the size of the United States, all with hungry stomachs too.

 

We can't have sustainability without a sustainable population. It's time for a national population policy. See npg.org

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It's also not good that Tyson could become a monopsony too. Monopsony: "the market condition that exists when there is one buyer". (I learned about that on Grist. :-))

Monopoly and monopsony, either way it doesn't bode well for the consumer.

But a monopsony is worse for us and small farmers. What corners will farmers have to cut in order to meet the price Tyson would be willing to pay?

On the other hand it could encourage small farmers to go organic or truly natural and sell local.

All I know for sure is that it won't get any better for us when we have an additional population the size of Florida to feed in just four more years. (And the world has an additional population the size of the United States, all with hungry stomachs too.

 

We can't have sustainability without a sustainable population. It's time for a national population policy. See npg.org

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