US gov is paying American farmers to destroy vast quantities of food

submitted by casparvoneverecBig tiddy respecter from self.debatealtright

https://www.greenmatters.com/p/government-paying-farmers-destroy-crops#:~:text=Basically%2C%20farmers%20are%20not%20eligible,to%20destroy%20crops%20or%20animals.

If they don't, they'll be cut off from federal subsidies and made uncompetitive.

I think the objective is clear. Create a food shortage and then say how farming is unsustainable and introduce a bug based diet. The logic will be that its more ''sustainable'' and cost effective for America's growing population.

Absolutely inisidious.

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[–]IkeConn 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

It is for price support. You know those high grocery prices you are paying? The government is paying farmers to create artificial shortages to keep your prices high.

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

u/socks very happy to pay a higher price he says!

[–]Brewdabier 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Hay I was reading last night NASA has put two men on the dark side of the sun, it went on to say the had to because there was no room for sunscreen.

Now for some facts, The waste is due to a collapse in parts of the service industry forced to close because of the virus. It means buyers like restaurants, hotels, schools, and sports venues no longer need ingredients, which has in turn caused demand to plummet in some cases to half its regular levels, Producers in some states have been asked by the cooperative Dairy Farmers of America to dump thousands of gallons of milk which is now un-sellable, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Oh and the sky is falling

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Artificial scarcity. The price system demands it.

[–]YJaewedwqewqClerical Fascist 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure this and other such things are rather common, it's to fuck with supply and demand to keep the market stable as far as I'm aware. There could easily be ulterior motives but this isn't rare.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Doesn't the U.S give away a surplus of their own food to Africa?

It actually has a negative effect on their continent, because actual African farmers can't compete against "free" stuff being handed to their nations instead of buying stuff locally.

So destroying U.S crops may sound bad at first, but then consider where they were going to ship it off to anyway.

[–]DragonerneJesus is white 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Free stuff is actually a disadvantage

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

negative effect

Creates a billion useless nogs we are told have nowhere to go but White countries.

[–]asterias 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The same thing happened in European countries when they joined European Economic Community decades ago. The result was that Greece, a producer of lemons, had to import lemons from Argentina and Israel. Similarly for other products as well.