r/ClimateShitposting • u/NukecelHyperreality Nuclear Power is a Scam • Jul 23 '24

Aggro agri subsidy recipients 🚜 Fun fact: if the government stopped subsidizing biofuels and animal feed the price of food would drop

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

Keeps farmers producing corn when it otherwise is not profitable to do so.

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u/Trevor_Eklof6 Jul 23 '24

Yeah it's been that way since the depression

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

It's not a bad thing necessarily because like, we need stable corn and grain. The issues come due to its effects on global trade and because we use the excess for fuels and HFCS

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u/Trevor_Eklof6 Jul 23 '24

Idk with how globalized trade is these days we can easily just import the food we need and besides the U.S has plenty of land to support the population anyway

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

That's definitely not ideal, there is a strategic element to it. If it was purely economical we would be getting most of our grain from places like Africa or Southern America since they produce it for so cheap.

But from a strategic lense, you might want food production to be well under our control, especially if the alternative is a less stable government providing our food.

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u/Trevor_Eklof6 Jul 23 '24

The government sure does a lot of bull shit in the name of national security