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This is unsustainable meat production, right? Would probably be good if those farmers went for other crops instead. In stores, meat is gonna go up to it's real market value.
The problem is the guy raising cows cannot suddenly shift to growing crops as they might mot have suitable soil for crops to grow in, might not have the hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars needed to convert from livestock to crop farming, and likely doesn't have the knowledge as raising pigs or cows is different from growing corn.
Modern meat production in the industrialized West is unsustainable for the ecology and the subsidies need to be shifted from bring the cost of meat lower to programs assisting ranchers to become farmers.
Yep. Will actually make plant based and lab based alternatives competitive, and as they're allowed to gain market share, become cheaper.
Do it. Fuck over the farmers even more than you've already started to do. Have even more of them turn on the party.
Now that would make a fun townhall meeting in a community where the Republican government just ruined half the population, and that half has guns.
They’ll blame Biden and Obama.
For getting them used to subsidies, that Trump takes away to make them great again. Probably something like that. But they only need to get lucky once per Representative, the bodygards need to be lucky all the time.
Couple things on this:
Jane Velez-Mitchel is kind of a whacky character, but I think she's onto something here. I think most people would recognize her from the big news channels, and I think she had a Judge Judy type show for a minute. She's an open and out lesbian and LGBTQ advocate (important in a bit).
Farm subsidies went absolutely crazy under Trump's first term. They were used as a way to prop up failing farms suffering due to COVID, and there was definitely a ton of abuse in there due to this.
If these assclowns are serious about cutting waste and fraud, this is an easy place to look. The farm subsidy system is abused by medium and large agriculture operations (Cargill, WSF, Smithfield...etc), basically makes up 20% of their total net profits. Not that there's a ton of money to be saved in the bigger picture ($50b).
This should serve as further proof these dipshits aren't serious about anything they say. They won't touch this, just like they don't care to help tackle inflation and let their billionaire club keep pillaging the taxpayer. This will further negatively impact their base (like they care anymore), will make inflation sharply rise again, and is going to be heavily pushed by the "woke" side: vegans, LGBTQ, and left-leaning people whom they hate with a passion.
I think this being mentioned to Musk is kind of a tongue-in-cheek to call out their bullshit and lies, but maybe she's being genuine. It's clever to point out either way.