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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 1109"><p>" Antitrust laws under the jurisdiction of the Justice Department are enforced mostly from the consumer perspective - not the producer. Such focus not only removes producers from legal protection, it ensures that producers will not get legal protection because keeping prices low (what some of us call price-fixing) is seen as a consumer benefit and not liability. Efficiencies of consolidation, mergers and acquisitions, are no longer seen as anti-competitive, but as positive consumer benefits. Until price-fixing and lack of competition are clearly seen as liabilities to the consumers, producers will receive only cursory protection under existing law." Kathleen Kelley, a Colorado rancher. For her complete remarks and more, use link below.<br> Through the globel meat and grain commodity industry, American ag producers are put in direct compitition with producers from developing countries that don't have our burden of federal government mandated regulations. This will reduce American producers to their poverty level. </p><p><br></p><p><ul><li><a href="http://www.rcalf.com/news/visionremarks.html">Kelley's remarks</a></ul></p><p><br><hr size=4 width=75%><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:robta@netpathway.com">robta@netpathway.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 1109"] " Antitrust laws under the jurisdiction of the Justice Department are enforced mostly from the consumer perspective - not the producer. Such focus not only removes producers from legal protection, it ensures that producers will not get legal protection because keeping prices low (what some of us call price-fixing) is seen as a consumer benefit and not liability. Efficiencies of consolidation, mergers and acquisitions, are no longer seen as anti-competitive, but as positive consumer benefits. Until price-fixing and lack of competition are clearly seen as liabilities to the consumers, producers will receive only cursory protection under existing law." Kathleen Kelley, a Colorado rancher. For her complete remarks and more, use link below.<br> Through the globel meat and grain commodity industry, American ag producers are put in direct compitition with producers from developing countries that don't have our burden of federal government mandated regulations. This will reduce American producers to their poverty level. <br> <ul><li><a href="http://www.rcalf.com/news/visionremarks.html">Kelley's remarks</a></ul> <br><hr size=4 width=75%><p> [email=robta@netpathway.com]robta@netpathway.com[/email] [/QUOTE]
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