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Well, the United States has a strategic cheese reserve and distributes free government cheese to welfare recipients and the elderly because the industry can't b
by bcrl 2y ago
Well, the United States has a strategic cheese reserve and distributes free government cheese to welfare recipients and the elderly because the industry can't be bothered to match supply with demand.
There's also the gigantic US corn subsidy that's propped up by forced use of corn derived ethanol additives mandated in gasoline, as well as excessive use of extremely unhealthy high fructose corn syrup because of the resulting artificially low price of corn products.
Both of those programs far exceed the scale of Canada's dairy quotas. Additionally, the dairy quoatas in Canada are enforced on Canadian producers as well to prevent the never-ending boom-bust cycles seen in the US dairy market.