These California and Colorado ballot measures are terrifying the meat industry

I’m a meat-eater and I support this. Even if it means paying more for meat and not having it cheap and plentiful anymore.

Another meat eater who's down. Let it be an unsubsidized delicacy.

Not just chefs, but also immigrant communities who use goat meat. The place that processed my pigs, despite having a massive Trump sign out front, was frequented by Middle Eastern and South Asian immigrants. Big meat processors are primarily set up for cows and pigs and possibly sheep so their alternative is imported goat meat at significantly higher prices.

I have not heard anyone saying in Denver they support that measure for the simple reason it targets just one business. What’s next making the Purina dog/cat food plant illegal that’s been in Denver for a most a 100 years

Please justify this point of view, because Measure J only applies to large CAFOs (as defined by federal regulation). This will only impact the operations of large corporations like Perdue, not "rural people". Your post reads like corporate propaganda.

This would apply to 21 facilities in Sonoma County, none of them small family businesses.

Bunch of city people want to destroy rural people’s lifestyles.

CAFOs are not "rural people's lifestyle". They are a relatively modern invention to create the largest amount of meat while employing the fewest people possible. Trying to defend them as "rural people's lifestyle" is very disingenuous. If you want to defend them, there are reasonable arguments to make, like the price of food, the land use, water use, etc, compared to meat produced other ways.

Even if somehow having a corporation own 100,000 chickens that they raise down the road from you was an important part of your lifestyle, I cannot stand the constant argument that somehow, rural folks' way of life is more important to preserve than urban folks'. As we make the climate worse, and pump out more pollution, and have more kids, and create more technology, everyone's life is going to change. Rural folks have significantly more kids than urban folks and they produce more burden on the environment, yet somehow, it's on people who live it cities who are supposed to bear the costs because we can't possibly do anything that affects people who live rurally?

I, and most people, want small, family run operations to succeed. There's no reason we have to protect Big Ag to keep small operations. Big Ag is the biggest threat to the little guys.