• @RegalPotoo
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    895 months ago

    Where I’m from, there was a huge egg shortage for a while because ~5 years ago the government passed new laws to try and make things marginally less horrible for chickens. The entire industry decided that they were going to do… basically nothing, then the rules came into force and there was lots of winging from industry people that 5 years want enough time, and how hard it was not being able to sell all this product that they kept producing for some reason

    • @[email protected]
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      365 months ago

      That wasn’t honest incompetence. That was a failed, organized attempt to force a repeal.

      • @madcaesar
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        115 months ago

        Smells like too big to fail fuckery

        • @Mojeezy
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          85 months ago

          Smells like too big to fail… cluckery…(⌐■_■)

      • @RegalPotoo
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        65 months ago

        Oh totally. There was an election and a change of government to one that is typically more business friendly, so I guess the hope was they’d roll back the rules but they were actually pretty popular with the public in general

    • Bob
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      145 months ago

      Sounds familiar, living in the Netherlands where farmers had years and subsidies to reduce reliance on livestock for the environment, then protested when the rules came into force and they hadn’t used the time or subsidies to prepare.