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'Groundbreaking' Vote To Ban Factory Farming To Be Held In US County
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The proposed penalties seem low to me. A max of $3.65M annually for operating means that so long as your operations in the county make more net profit than that, there's no reason to leave. It seems to me that by merging any smaller operations, one could end up with a large enough operation to make that math work pretty trivially. Hell, for all I know even a rather small operation could be making that much.
Given that this was an activist-driven ballot initiative, it confuses me why they're not simply basing the fines on profits...
Unfortunately many "activist-driven" initiatives, turn out to benefit more larger corporations, rather than either smaller owners, or the activists themselves.
We're having a similar issue in the EU, where several months of "activist-driven" initiatives and protests, have resulted in regulation modificatios mainly benefitting large corporations, while actually hurting the activists themselves. 🤷