On 12-17-97 Andrew Cummins wrote to Day Brown... 
 AC>  DB> Unfortunately John, Argi-business has been dabbling in politics  
 AC>  DB> far too long for it to be a free market.  Looking over the last  
 AC>  DB> 50 years of legislation and regulation, I would have to say that  
 AC>  DB> the effort was to limit competition and drive family farms out of 
 AC>  DB> business. 
 AC> 
 AC> Government, especially those that "care," hurts small business. 
 AC> But, it is the lack of efficiency of small farms that have put 
 AC> family farms out of business (economies of scale).  For a family 
 AC> farm to stay in business, it must find a niche product where huge 
 AC> factory farms cannot compete effectively. 
Huge factory farms have no mandate to hand the land onto another 
generation, a considerable savings to the bottom line. At what 
cost to the rest of the nation remains to be seen or paid for. 
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