Kate wrote:
How about wanting to make sure you get good healthy chicken to eat?

Chickens are inspected. It remains to you and your activist cronies to
actually prove the chickens are unhealthy, even in the aggregate, prior
to frying.

And that the growers get a fair price and contract from the owner's of
the little chicks?

They must be getting fair price or else they would be out of business.

after all, the grower's don't own the chickens,

The law would beg to differ. The punishment for rustling is quite severe.

they just slave over them to grow them,

Hyperbole. Can't you address issues without emoting?

but if they tried to buy their
own chicks and sell them, they would be hard-pressed to do so.

Not at all. The free market allows suppliers to enter into contracts. If
the contracts are not mutually beneficial, suppliers should not enter
into them.

(shrimpers have similar problems- there is a coalition that decides
who gets to sell their shrimp.)

Umm, not. Shrimpers are free to sell their catch to the highest bidders.
Today, that means shrimpers sell enough to wholesalers to cover basic
expenses (hopefully) and sell the rest directly to individuals. Many
farmers operate in the same manner, selling to both wholesalers and
directly to customers.

The dynamics of shrimping -- at least shrimp trawling -- have changed
with the increased level of shrimp farming. Shrimp farming, too, has
been impacted by the growth of shrimp farming in Asia. Shrimp trawling
is a dying industry, particularly here along the Gulf Coast. The reasons
have nothing to do with collusion as you allege.

The San Antonio Express News had a series on changes in the shrimp
industry a month or two ago. You may find it still online at
mysanantonio.com.

You know, capitalism isn't all it's cracked up to be, IMO.

You've no apparently understanding of capitalism. Nevertheless, ask
anyone from eastern Europe, China, Cuba, or North Korea about the
alternatives.

I'd love to see lots of those multi-national corporations go into
the toilet,

You're very compassionate, aren't you. /sarcasm

after the little shareholders sell their stock, of course.

Corporations, regardless of size, exist only so long as they provide
beneficial products or services to consumers. Your petty contempt for
things you don't understand isn't compassion, it's ignorance. Stop
confusing the two.

snip of partisan prattle