Agriculture’s Gig Workers A consortium of leftist, environmental and anti-meat activists is suing U.S. meat companies for marketing their products as produced by independent family farmers. The groups argue that due to the contracting system utilized, the meat is instead the output of corporate-controlled factory farms. Notable is that they have filed their complaints to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The contracting system in poultry and increasingly in pork is despised by farmers that fail to produce to the standards of the contract but the vast majority of producers have successful operations in large part due to the highly refined production systems devised by their “clients.” The technical argument before the FT...

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