If there's consolidation in any industry, including automobiles or tennis shoes or anything you want to look at, there's always consolidation forces. What we do want to make sure is that our regulatory schemes don't disadvantage new players coming in. 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. (08:03–08:08)
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Asserts that cooperatives should be allowed to enter the meatpacking industry without regulatory barriers.
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