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>Food is a basic need for everyone too and we don't set the price artificially low because of that. We kind of do through agriculture subsidies.
by mason240 10y ago
>Food is a basic need for everyone too and we don't set the price artificially low because of that.
We kind of do through agriculture subsidies.
- partiallypro 10y agoThat's to protect entrenched interests, not to lower food prices. It dates back to FDR and his asinine economics, dumping perfectly good milk out, crop burns, slaughtering hogs and letting the meat go to waste. We still do crop burns and the government buys crops and lets them rot or just destroys them. It has nothing to do with food prices being low, it has to do with protecting profits for the big farms. We have taxes and tariffs on some crops coming from outside of the U.S., such as sugar cane. Has nothing to do with lowering food prices.