We don't want to prevent cooperatives for stepping into the meatpacking industry. There's many agricultural cooperatives. I belong to one as an almond grower called blue diamond. And I want to make sure that The farm bill doesn't try and create industry structure, but that it liberalizes it and lets the industries and the players within the industries participate, as they will, without regulatory constraints. When we start looking at things like animal husbandry standards coming out of California and determining how egg producers and pork producers can serve our markets here in California, major us market, that starts to drive consolidation. (08:15–08:29)
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