• derf82@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Maybe because you can’t manifest extra dairy cows out of the aether in the winter?

    The government does try to help by buying surplus dairy and turning into preservable cheese, but that has just led to bad jokes about “government cheese.”

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      8 months ago

      Maybe because you can’t manifest extra dairy cows out of the aether in the winter?

      No but what you can do is use dried milk fat to even out production, you can do is simply pay ranchers more for that month given that they are making less, you can do is freeze butter a month earlier and release it when milk gets more dear, what they can do is subsidize hay so it can be introduced slowly creating less of a shock.

      We don’t do any of those things. And why should we? Dairy lobby is no where near as powerful since it is spread out instead of concentrated. Which means less lobbying, less bribes, less government money.

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          8 months ago

          Yeah that program from the 1970s very relevant. I am talking now. 2024. In 2024 anyone milking a cow in an area that they need to have that cow on hay once in a while is not getting money for the winter shock. Which shows that it has nothing to do with dust bowls, preventing starvation, helping farmers, stabilizing prices, global warming or any other argument that wants to be dragged out to simp for jt. It is corruption, plain simple and ancient.

          You can always tell when someone is lying by the number of bad explanations they give for something. Why did you go to the bathroom just now? Because you needed to. Why do you believe the government should throw money at farmers who can’t grow as a reward for failure? Here is fifty different arguments that can’t all be true.