If nothing changes, industry officials fear a ferocious one-two punch: the possible loss of cane-refining capacity at home, which could hurt food producers, and a steady rise in imports, which could wipe out both domestic growers and refiners.
The difference in the share that was displaced from a declining labour market is small, and the share of workers that changes industry after displacement does not differ strongly between older and prime-aged workers.
Comprising factors that are not directly influenced by the firm's management are leaps in competition or sudden technology changes, industry conditions, or legislation changes, external distress causes are not directly influenced by the firm's management (Mellahi and Wilkinson 2004).
We need a three-pronged approach to address this issue: policy changes; industry self-regulation; and more parental tools, monitoring and education.
Worried that consumers are starting to find out the truth about treatment of modern farm animals and will demand further changes, industry leaders are pushing for "ag gag" laws that would hide factory farming and slaughterhouse abuses from public scrutiny.
