Sine_Fine_Belli
No farmer can compete with poorer countries without subsidies due to lower cost of production, but local farmers are necessary for society to supply food even if logistics get disrupted (see covid)
bleistift2You have it the wrong way around. Poorer countries cannot compete with massively subsidized, industrial-scale food production. It’s a know problem that African countries get their markets flooded with cheap European produce, since European farmers are incentivized to produce as much as possible. The surplus is exported.
halvarEuropean farmers are massively subsidized, too. Currently it’s about €50bn/a, or approximately €1000 for every citizen fed in the EU.
I assumed this was about Europeans. In America it would be corn and our farmers didn’t have to threaten the government
Good (ish) though, obviously that 1000 isn’t coming linearly, it’s with progressive taxes, so it’s going towards subsidising food for everyone, so the baseline cost is lower.
Personally I think that only staples (grains, legumes, root vegetables, maybe squash) should be eligible for subsidies, but even then it’s good.
I would agree with you if food wasn’t really fucking essential.
PotatoesFallHateful dogwater neoliberal brainshart, gross. Just no
unknown1234_5hey jackass, the reason food farmers have a harder time making a profit than ones who make wine is because rich people pay a ton for wine as a status symbol while actively making things worse for most farmers by forcing them to sell to massive companies that dont pay them