a gap between legislative harmonization and regulatory harmonization that is allowing and promoting private parties to abuse the system to gain an unfair advantage over market competition (Hart, 2007). This has caused a regulatory vulnerability that can be solved most efficiently by completing a single trade and regulatory regime in the livestock and meat industry. Private interest groups should not be allowed to abuse a system and gain increased profits at the detriment of society.
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