They've been doing this for decades.
Check the date on this: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/jan/23/spilled-milk-dairy-farmers-dump-product-to/
Farming is heavily subsidized. This leads to overproduction. This leads to prices below the cost of production. In order to maintain prices many farmers are paid to dump their product.
This is similar to why there is corn syrup in everything (and why so many americans are fat) corn is so heavily subsidized you make money even if you sell it for $0. This means corn syrup costs effectively nothing.
This is actually a hedge against starvation, because if there is a bad year, we still produce far more than we need.
They've been doing this for decades.
Check the date on this:
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/jan/23/spilled-milk-dairy-farmers-dump-product-to/
Farming is heavily subsidized. This leads to overproduction. This leads to prices below the cost of production. In order to maintain prices many farmers are paid to dump their product.
This is similar to why there is corn syrup in everything (and why so many americans are fat) corn is so heavily subsidized you make money even if you sell it for $0. This means corn syrup costs effectively nothing.
This is actually a hedge against starvation, because if there is a bad year, we still produce far more than we need.
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