[arrosenberg]

He's pointing out that meat packing consolidated into a cartel (Tyson, JBS, Smithfield and Cargill), which has enough economic power to ignore or alter regulation. The solution is antitrust - break corporate power into small enough pieces that they don't have the resources to escape regulatory oversight.

[throwaway48476]

That's absolutely part of it. Animals that are kept close together in cages and barns instead of roaming get sick and spread sickness far more quickly as well. We've created a million dangerous biolabs for diseases with biosimilarity to us.