@Jens_Rasmussen @Dicer @teknomunk @Waldbrand Not only that, but being a country that has little arable land means that there is no incentive to have agriculture consolidated like in America. Agricultural exports are a huge deal and always has been, and the growth in factory farming was the result of the Farm Bill subsidies which began during the Great Depression. By the 1980s the same kind of mentality you saw in Wall Street with corporate mergers was taking place in farming as family farms were being gobbled up all in the name of maximizing output and efficiency. It's also why regulatory capture has occurred and why nothing has changed even though everybody hates this.