Lie #1: Industrial Food is Cheap
The retail prices may be low, but they fail to include impacts
on human health, the environment, and other shared public
assets.
You will ultimately foot a much bigger bill, paying your part of
hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, medical
expenses, insurance premiums, declining property values, and
mounting cleanup costs.
Lie #2: Industrial Food is Efficient
Industrial food animal producers rely on heavily subsidized
agriculture, large infusions of capital, and lax enforcement of
regulations. High productivity and domination of market share
should not be confused with efficiency. When you measure total
cost per unit of production, or even net profit per animal, you
find that confinement operations come with hidden costs.