Death of Dairy Farming in the USA

[King Static X]

Anyways, another factor in the decline of dairy farms is that people are drinking less cow milk nowadays.

I don't drink cow milk. I think that it's nasty. Also, cow milk is meant for calves not humans. Humans are the only species to drink milk from a different species.

That's just my 2 cents.

 

[FAH1223]

Anyways, another factor in the decline of dairy farms is that people are drinking less cow milk nowadays.

I don't drink cow milk. I think that it's nasty. Also, cow milk is meant for calves not humans. Humans are the only species to drink milk from a different species.

That's just my 2 cents.

This is true

But what about almond milk

My mom and sister only buy that nowadays

 

[Geek Nasty]

2 reasons IMO. First off Agriculture is controlled by a distribution network of middle men. They suppress the prices that farmers can get. Notice we never see all these historically low food prices at the grocery store because the distributors are eating off the farmers and the grocers side. Kidn of like what banks are doing the the federal interest rate.

Other reason is farmers live in rural communities and states that are indoctrinated to believe that "good for business is good for me." So they're supporting policies across that board that are destroying their communities and way of life. This is where all the rural suicide and drug use is coming from. They can't figure out why they keep voting redder and redder but shyt gets worse and worse. Politicians have done a great job making "those liberals" the culprits.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

This is true

But what about almond milk

My mom and sister only buy that nowadays

I read this crazy story a few years back on how this one California family has managed to artificially inflate the almond market AND corner the California water market simultaneously. Almonds are actually a water-intensive crop, and they've done some shady shyt to corner the water for themselves while the rest of California in desperate straits.

Meet the California Couple who Uses More Water than Every Home in Los Angeles Combined

 

[King Static X]

This is true

But what about almond milk

My mom and sister only buy that nowadays

I drink Vanilla Almond Milk. I can't drink any other version.

 

[hashmander]

my favorites are Elmhurst cashew milk and hazlenut milk.

 

[ill]

I read this crazy story a few years back on how this one California family has managed to artificially inflate the almond market AND corner the California water market simultaneously. Almonds are actually a water-intensive crop, and they've done some shady shyt to corner the water for themselves while the rest of California in desperate straits.

Meet the California Couple who Uses More Water than Every Home in Los Angeles Combined

Most crops grown in Cali are heavily water dependent. I read that water war article as well and it seems big agriculture owns the water and the cities and people are told to fukk off.

 

[Yapdatfool]

Yeah and then every farm will be a corporate mega farm. Is that what you want?

Aren't we already there with gov't intervention

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Aren't we already there with gov't intervention

Without gov't intervention, wouldn't the small farms lack the capital to compete with the mega-corp farms and just be swallowed up anyway?

 

[DEAD7]

Yeah and then every farm will be a corporate mega farm. Is that what you want?

Without gov't intervention, wouldn't the small farms lack the capital to compete with the mega-corp farms and just be swallowed up anyway?

Could you explain how consumers/taxpayers lose?
Why should private entities who cant compete in the market be propped up by the state?

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Could you explain how consumers/taxpayers lose?
Why should private entities who cant compete in the market be propped up by the state?

• Isn't one of the basic tenets of capitalism, competition?
  
• Are you going to ignore the many cases of seeds of Big Agro falling into a small farm and Big Agro suing the small farm into not selling their crops or suing them out of business altogether?
• What about black farmers that were screwed out of good seeds, equipment, and land? Should they be labeled as "unable to compete"?
  
• Should a mega-corp that received larger than normal amounts of corporate welfare and used major bending of the law to absorb or wipe out small farmers now be set against the remaining small farmers who didn't get that level/amount of gov't help?
  
• How would a monopoly, duopoly, or oligopoly be beneficial for the consumer/taxpayers?
  
• How does the consumer/taxpayers benefit from Big Agro being Too Big to Fail?

 

[DEAD7]

• Isn't one of the basic tenets of capitalism, competition?
  
• Are you going to ignore the many cases of seeds of Big Agro falling into a small farm and Big Agro suing the small farm into not selling their crops or suing them out of business altogether?
• What about black farmers that were screwed out of good seeds, equipment, and land? Should they be labeled as "unable to compete"?
  
• Should a mega-corp that received larger than normal amounts of corporate welfare and used major bending of the law to absorb or wipe out small farmers now be set against the remaining small farmers who didn't get that level/amount of gov't help?
  
• How would a monopoly, duopoly, or oligopoly be beneficial for the consumer/taxpayers?
  
• How does the consumer/taxpayers benefit from Big Agro being Too Big to Fail?

@ Answering the question with a question...
I'll engage, I got time today...

1. Government propping up those who cant compete isnt a basic tenet...
2. No again, how do taxpayers/consumers lose? simple question.
3. result of government intervention
4. the fukkery of government intervention being used to justify more government intervention.
5. I dont believe a monopoly on American agriculture is possible without goverment intervention... worse case scenario is american ag falls victim to foreign ag
6. Tax dollars not being used to prop up unsustainable/failing businesses/industries is a win in my opinion.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

@ Answering the question with a question...

But you answered my question with a question first.

 

[DEAD7]

But you answered my question with a question first.

I did tho...

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

cow milk is meant for calves not humans. Humans are the only species to drink milk from a different species.

i use half and half to make pancakes and shyt like that.
i have 3 bowls of cereal a year...1 box.

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other than that i don't fukk with milk.

as to the point about humans being the only species to drink anothers milk.

it could be that we are the only ones smart enough to do it.

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