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Originally Posted by HardDrive
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I find that perplexing. You seem pretty conservative.
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Actually, I'm simply a pragmatist with a drive to understand the balance of systems (yeah, an engineer)
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Originally Posted by HardDrive
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Government interference in the form of farm subsidies is not only anti-competitive,....
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As a kid, living in Idaho, I saw some pissed-off farmers going on about market manipulation of farm-food prices. Farmer would harvest potatoes, take them to the wholesale market, only to find distributors (who should be buying) dumping last-years potatoes, in an (effective) effort to bring down the price on the current crop.
Point being, there will always be manipulation of markets. But, be clear, paying farmers to grow food (that may not be used) is a safer bet than having another dust-bowl. And, ending subsidies will not make the big corporations stop gaining control. ...try anti-trust if they are too big.
It's strange, we have people getting their panties in a bunch over the smallest subtleties of the range of food we have, and yet they seem to totally miss the
enormous importance of having a stable food supply. ...this is not something to take lightly. When Dot sez
"And that is actually the way it should be."(
locavore) I think; what a spoiled Utopian idiot.