Livestock production is capital intensive, risky and stressful. Running a processing plant is capital intensive, risky and stressful. We all grew up in or chose a very hard but rewarding industry. What large packing plants do is damn near miraculous - making that much beef disappear every day in balance with the animal, day in and day out as someone who plays on a micro level is insane. What the cattle feeding industry does - on paper buying a negative swap - day in and day out and trying to feed or trade a profit into them for decades on end is insane. It’s incredible this whole system works as well as it does. As someone who got beat to a pulp in the last market reset and someone who’s trying to make a teeny tiny mark on the processing side… I say this, I hope everyone makes it through this and that the processing side isn’t necessarily nefarious. We are playing business on hard mode…and most of us wouldn’t want to do anything else whether that makes sense or not.