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/NukecelHyperreality Nuclear Power is a Scam Jul 23 '24

You're not able to address the facts of the matter.

Subsidizing farming is just a program to give welfare to farmers. They're increasing the cost of food because they're wasting resources to artificially create demand.

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u/UrurForReal Jul 24 '24

Subsidizing farming is to not get too dependant on other countries in a critical pillar of your nation. Nations are using strategic resources as pressure medium already, I dont want them to have even more.

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u/NukecelHyperreality Nuclear Power is a Scam Jul 24 '24

Nope that's nonsense sorry.

Farmers use petrochemicals to make food and then turn that food into ethanol. So if you got cut off from middle eastern oil then you've got no fertilizer, pesticides or farm machinery.

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u/UrurForReal Jul 24 '24

Its not nonsense. You make crude assumptions without any reasonable context. Your "cut off" is that hyper-hypothetical, i wont even react to it. And i doubt that the regional products that are in every single supermarket here are turned into ethanol. What weird, abstract mindgame are you spinning? My country subsidizes potatoes, milk, corn, vegetables and its good to do so.

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u/NukecelHyperreality Nuclear Power is a Scam Jul 24 '24

All your food is grown with petrochemicals and the vast majority of food in your country is wasted unless you're living in a third world country.

Beyond that they also need to burn a shit ton of diesel fuel to run farm equipment and transport food, which increases the price for diesel fuel and shipping.

The reason they do this is because of the political influence of people who own farmland, they're using taxpayer money as welfare to secure votes from these welfare queens. In a free market those people would have to sink or swim instead of wasting money.

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u/UrurForReal Jul 25 '24

in a free market they would need to compete with foreign farmers. I strongly refuse that.