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>The economics of American farming fail because 70% of profit is retained by the processor

The above sounds like a very Marxian criticism though, essentially Marx's exploitation thing, only instead of considering a proletariat and capital owners, small capital owners and big capital owners who are middlemen and able to lock down the ability of the small capital owners to sell their goods.



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