The popular mind is agitated with problems that may disturb social order, and among them all none is more threatening than the inequality of condition, of wealth, and opportunity that has grown within a single generation out of the concentration of capital into vast combinations to control production and trade and to break down competition.—Senator John Sherman, 1890, speaking of his Sherman Antitrust Act
Monopoly in Milk: The End of a Family Dairy Farm
An older Kentucky dairy farmer named Guy Coombs described dairy farming in the 21st century to an NBC documentary crew. He told them, “It’s been real rough mentally, more than physically. Feed man called me one day and said, ‘How ya doin?’ I said ‘Physically I’m fine, mentally I wanna shoot someone.’ ...
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