Yeah, everything is geared towards making thing cost more or giving up more freedoms.
Conspiracy theory time. I'm not saying I believe in it, I think it was likely a bad batch, however I'll preface this by conspiracy theories I've heard online and a fact or two:
Government made it law that any cow, beef or dairy, born on a homestead, small farm (basically anyone not a major corporation) must report the birth to the government, tag, and chip their cows. We know the Gates/Soros type want us eating lab processed meat or crickets. Gates own tons of farm land and the USDA encourages home gardeners/farmers to register their crops so the government "can help". Mad cow disease, bird flu, etc. Masses of hogs and chickens dying off a year or two ago. 3 chicken feed producers (I believe owned all by the same company) was busted for putting in chemicals into their chicken feed that prevented chickens from laying eggs until a whistleblower from inside ratted them out. Those are all facts.
Now the conspiracy theory part: So every baby born the last few months, goats and alpacas on my gal's farm has died. After the 2nd alpaca baby died yesterday, she started making calls to farmers, breeders, etc. that she knows around the SE US. A few of them said they had the same experience, every single birth in the last 6 months died within days, most were premature births. They all had a drastic increase in deaths on newborns in specific livestock. A couple said that after testing, it was bacteria linked to the hay. They all use the same hay supplier, which is not local.
Accidental hay contamination or intentional to hurt small farms/self sufficient homesteads?