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I think it has been figured out, it is just heavily lobbied against. In general, you have to flip normal. Every time I get my Butcherbox pasture raised beef out of the freezer, I'm aggravated they have to print "pasture raised"... that should be the standard, not the luxury brand. A few ideas off the cuff...

- Make food companies label non-organic food and say why they aren't organic, vs. making organic declare themselves, certify and therefore cost more. - Raise minimum grades on beef and poultry. Low grade meat is the only way to make large portions work economically. - Require food with meat ingredients to list what grade of meat is being used, hormone use, etc. - Disallow mixing of multiple animals in ground meat products... or at least cap it. Right now, fast food works because you can grind up hundreds of cattle at once.

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I agree with most of this, but what specifically is wrong with grinding up hundreds of animals (apart from sounding gross)?

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Risk of disease spread. Many outbreaks (mad cow, etc) were larger problems than they should have been because cattle from various farms had been mixed.

It also complicates source tracing for any other problem - bad feed, importing rules, etc.