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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The dairy lobby in the US is huge money. If you ever want to know why we're making a seemingly stupid decision follow the money, look at the entrenched interests and read some history. We subsidize dairy farmers because we used to subsidize dairy farmers and they spent a bunch of their earnings lobbying for more subsidies.
Granted, tobacco is far worse than dairy in its health outcomes, but imagine if big tobacco had somehow managed to get schools and government agencies to push their product onto children as a "health" product. Dairy is much like that.
there is a bit of a difference between milk and tobacco
Really? I've been substituting tobacco for milk in my morning cereal every day, it's been great to get away from dairy, finally.
I just go down to my local saloon and get the free tobacco milk they store in that big metal jug
While that was true... this all happened when there wasn't many other options frankly. The landscape is changing.