• lightnegative@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Consumers: only buy the cheapest regardless of how it’s produced, ensuring a race to the bottom

    Producers: lower standards to increase production so they can sell meat for the lowest cost

    Consumers when they find out what that entails: shocked pikachu face

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      4 months ago

      I highly doubt that chain of causation to be true. Had people paid more, the producers would still lower their cost base as much as possible, in order to maximize profits.

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      Corporations: Under pay employees for decades

      Consumers: only buy the cheapest regardless of how it’s produced, ensuring a race to the bottom

      Producers: lower standards to increase production so they can sell meat for the lowest cost

      Consumers when they find out what that entails: shocked pikachu face

      FTFY