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| View Poll Results: Protecting the agricultural sector | |||
| is still vital to a country |
  
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2 | 40.00% |
| should only be used to help farmers with unexpected changes |
  
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1 | 20.00% |
| should not exist |
  
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2 | 40.00% |
| Voters: 5. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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Ghost
 Member 4460 Level 13.04 Apr 2006 
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When prices are low farmers beg for help to "keep family farms going."
When prices are high farmers beg for help "to preserve our country's food production and increase food supply." This year congress passed a pretty disgusting but par for the course barrel of pork that largely helps major industrial farms increase their profits. Not that profits are bad, but why increase the handouts during record food prices and with all the ethanol hand-outs going strong too? Meanwhile the EU can't do shit to their locked-in farm subsidies and pay people to farm sheep on useless land because it looks nice and is local. Seriously. Of course, if they were really worried about food quality, they would ban what isn't safe and let farmers make the pitch for quality in the supermarket, rather than spend millions on subsidies and quotas. That said, being a small-time farmer is an extremely difficult, risky, and noble job. It's real tough for some. And it helps keep us from paving over our food supplies... What a mess. Jam it back in, in the dark. |
How Unfortunate