Last night.
Members of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) starting a 24 hour protest outside Meadow Meats in Rathdowney, County Laois. highlighting what they claim are unsustainable low prices being paid by the meat factories for beef. The IFA has targeted 30 meat plants across the country.
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
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supply and demand etc…
monopolistic illegal price fixing etc.
In this case a supply of maybe beef shipped in from who knows where competing with highly regulated product with prohibitive penalties for failing to meet stringent requirements.
Beef curtains
Indeed.
Flaps?
Where and how, there’s no free market but a very heavily regulated one. If it were a free market they’d be getting more money for quality product…. and if you think there is a ‘free market’ for basic economics like supply and demand to operate in, you’re deluded.
Maybe they should start co-ops to process beef. Wait, they already did that.