I feed four kids on a grocery budget that is already stretched thin, and chicken is the protein that makes the math work. The Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks food prices closely, and meat and eggs remain the most affordable complete proteins per dollar precisely because of scale. BLS. Phasing out factory farming in ten years means the price of that chicken doubles or triples, and no amount of talk about true cost accounting fills my kids' lunchboxes. Wealthy shoppers can already buy pasture-raised everything at Whole Foods. A phaseout is a regressive tax on poor families dressed up as virtue, and the people cheering loudest for it are the ones who will never feel the price.
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LifestyleSep 23, 2026
Should factory farming be phased out within ten years?
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The regressive tax point is the one the phaseout crowd never answers. When eggs spiked a few years ago, my food bank line doubled. Cheap protein is not an abstraction for poor families.
Exactly. Every one of these proposals is written by people who shop at farmers markets. Tell a single mom the chicken is doubling for the planet and watch how fast she stops listening.