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Re:Malawi legalises the growing, selling and export of cannabis by stickfigure on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:45PM (#22487875)
Western countries subsidize agriculture because there are a lot of farmers and they are a powerful voting block. In the US, they are especially influential in low-population states with high senator-to-citizen ratios.

Yeay democracy, I guess.

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Re:Malawi legalises the growing, selling and export of cannabis by corybrown on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @04:04PM (#22488090)
Are there a lot of farmers in the US? I don't seek it out, but I've read a few times that small family farms are quite rare and most food is produced by huge agribusiness farms
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Re:Malawi legalises the growing, selling and export of cannabis by bdamm on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @05:17PM (#22488759)
Agriculture is an enormous business in the USA, with 1% of the overall GDP. That may seem small, but consider that all USA industry combined is only 18% of the GDP. Many states in the country depend on agriculture as their #1 product. The USA is an exporter of food, with corn, beans, wheat and beets being the top crops.
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Re:Malawi legalises the growing, selling and export of cannabis by CodeCube on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @04:13PM (#22488193)
Those agribusiness farms still employee people, and those people vote in the same ways as farmers, even though they may not own a farm
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