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I'd always heard that dairy gets quite a lot of subsidies, including from advertising like the "Got milk?" ads. A quick search seems to support this. It'd be in
by packet_nerd 7y ago
I'd always heard that dairy gets quite a lot of subsidies, including from advertising like the "Got milk?" ads. A quick search seems to support this. It'd be interesting to hear from someone who's dug into this a lot more.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/dairy-subsidies-government-farm-programs-surplus-cheese/ https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/dairy-subsidie...
https://qz.com/944630/the-us-government-program-behind-the-got-milk-campaign-attacked-vegan-mayo-and-is-now-under-congressional-scrutiny/ https://qz.com/944630/the-us-government-program-behind-the-g...
https://www.idausa.org/government-meat-dairy-advertising/ https://www.idausa.org/government-meat-dairy-advertising/
- 18pfsmt 7y agoHow is the National Diary Council paying for advertising, which is a lobbyist group made up of dairies, a subsidy? Their subsidies are in things like the farm bill where they are protected by tariffs and our weird obsession with pasteurization. Our dairy industry does a bunch of exporting milk powder to the 3rd world. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bethkaiserman/2018/12/30/farm-bill-dairy-industry-decline-2018/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/bethkaiserman/2018/12/30/farm-b...