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Re:How Do We Solve America’s Oversupply of Bread? by prostoalex on Saturday September 02, 2017 @01:23PM (#15157150)
> I'd suggest first and foremost subsidizing healthier flours and seeds/nuts

Huge Pandora's box right there with California nut farmers. Basically, way back a bunch of people bought cheap land and then bought politicians to build the water infrastructure to make that privately owned land commercially viable. Now that water supply is unreliable, there's a movement to force the California taxpayers to boost the nut producers' profits, which some people disagree with.

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Re:How Do We Solve America’s Oversupply of Bread? by Broken_Hippo on Saturday September 02, 2017 @01:52PM (#15157306)
I figure that is a different problem. If folks have some foresight on such things, we could make appropriate requirements. Almonds, for example, might be too cost prohibitive to subsidize and they shouldn't be in areas where they are contributing to depleting the water supply.

Quinoa, sunflower seeds, peanuts, poppy seeds, and so on could easily be done.

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