Little does Craig know he's been auctioned off to a feedlot 1,000 miles away.

克雷格根本不知道，他已经被拍卖到了1000英里个。

Over that same time, while ranches went out of business feedlots got a lot bigger to service their corporate customers.

在同时期，当牧倒闭时候，就变得更大来服务他们企业客户。

Not having those competitive bids for the sale between meatpackers and feedlot owners means Ted might get a lower price.

没有肉类加工业和所有者之间竞争性投标，这意味着泰德可能会得到更低价格。

That's why about 72% of the sales in 2021 between feedlot owners and meatpackers is through a contract instead of an auction which removes them completely from the price discovery process.

这就是为什么在2021年，所有者和肉类加工业之间约72%销售额是通过合同而不是拍卖来实现，因为拍卖将他们完全排除在价格发现过程之。

Instead, buyers from the packing industry often go straight to the feedlot owner like Ted.

相反，包装行业买家经常直接去找主人，比如泰德。

Then a backgrounder sells to a feedlot, like this one.

然后个后台会将其卖给个，比如这个。

Solutions to promote competition include a proposed bill that would reduce the amount of contract sales between feedlot owners and meatpackers from 72% to 50%.

促进竞争解决方案包括项拟议法案，该法案将把所有者和肉类加工业之间合同销售额从72%减少到50%。

The feedlot owner then sells the finished cattle to the meatpacker, the company that slaughters them and sells their meat to consumers.

主人然后将完成牛卖给肉类加工厂，即屠宰这些牛并将其肉卖给消费者公司。

Those are actually cows at a feedlot in Summerfield, Texas, in the United States.

这些实际上是美国德克萨斯州萨默菲尔德奶牛。

But the sale between feedlot owners and the meatpackers looks a lot different.

但所有者和肉类加工业之间交易看起来有很大不同。

So has there been trials where they've looked at, you know, just swapping out the meat Like, you know, like, let's say you had a whole food diet, but you eat feedlot meat.

因此，是否有过试验探讨过仅仅替换肉类影响呢？比如，假设你遵循是种全食物饮食，但食用是生产肉类。

A collective story enables people in India to treat cows as sacred, while people in America cram cows into feedlots.

个集体故事使印度人将奶牛视为神圣，而美国人则将奶牛塞进。

And in many cases, that produce gets sent to animal feedlots, or worse, it rots in the fields.

而在许多情况下，这些农产品会被送到动物料，或者更糟是，在田里腐烂。

You can have certified organic feedlots.

你可以有经过人道认证。

And then those get sold to feedlots.

然后这些被卖给。