What If? – Sow housing

What if the entire pig industry in a given country was a single company? And what if all the retailers (grocery, food service and restaurants) had to go talk to the single company head and ask for changes? Let’s say they were to ask for a change from gestation crates to group housing. Wouldn’t the retailers expect to pay more for a change in production technology? Wouldn’t the pig company say: sure, if you want it this way, this is what it will now cost. But that is not how it is happening