Plant Milk Is Better For Us and the Climate. So Why Do We Subsidize Dairy?
Plant Milk Is Better For Us and the Climate. So Why Do We Subsidize Dairy?
Cow juice is still cheaper—and your taxes keep it that way.
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Need to keep the ag subsidies flowing so that rural areas keep voting conservative
It's not as if Democrats don't also throw plenty of bones to farmers.
Even if the farmers themselves are likely to be relatively conservative, they're such a politically sympathetic group that no one wants to be seen as "going after hard-working real American farmers!". Things like the Iowa caucuses playing a huge role in national politics don't help either (although the Dems have thankfully killed that).
It's more of a matter of if food gets more expensive you're more likely to be voted out of office