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Re:The ugly truth about the ugly produce movement by thebooktocome on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @05:46PM (#18135114)
We had agriculture before the subsidies.
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Re:The ugly truth about the ugly produce movement by tedivm on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @05:56PM (#18135179)
Agriculture, at least in the US, has always been subsidized. As a country we used slave labor (free labor) to subsidize agriculture, and then over time we gave away an epic amount of land to white farmers (via the Land Act of 1820, the Homestead Act, and the Morrill Act of 1862).
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Re:The ugly truth about the ugly produce movement by pixl97 on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @06:58PM (#18135502)
We also had lots of starvation before subsidies too.
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