America wants cheap food. Period. In the past, cattle took better than 30 months to reach slaughter weight on grass. Under current industrialized agricultural methods cattle can go from birth to the meat case in less than 12 months. Its very similar for chickens, hogs or any other common form of protein we consume on a daily basis. All this requires cheap grain, which in turn is produced with assistance of govt. subsidization. In the past, meat was often a luxury meal for most Americans. Now we all get to eat it nearly every day. Most of my neighbors farm. I don’t know one of them that would be taking subsidies just to screw the American taxpayer. Farmers usually just end up being a small cog in the great wheel of food production. So, if you don’t like the system, don’t participate. Buy all your food from a local producer and pay the actual price of production+profit. Don’t patronize Safeway, or Walmart or Kroger etc.- otherwise you are implicitly participating in the system. It’s a much more complicated issue than just paying farmers not to produce.
Chris
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Yes, I totally DISAGREE
with the government paying people to NOT grow crops. What ever happened to
supply and demand? I thought that was lesson #1 in Economics. So David, I guess it is fair for me to assume that you don't agree the the government paying some NOT to grow wheat or NOT to raise pigs so that those that DO can survive on a reasonable profit margin and not be flooded by over production creating too much product for not enough demand...? :) On 8/9/06 8:57 AM, "David Sovereen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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