[Sonny M]

I've always hated farm subsidies, and pretty much never look a gift horse in the mouth if it can be used to cut subsidies.

[msnimje]

But I was thinking about not growing corn next year so I could get money from the government.
If the subsidies end, I won't be able to not grow corn and get paid for it. This is not the America I know!

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

If the government and bureaucracies would keep their filthy noses out of agriculture and quit making laws against producing and selling, maybe agribusiness could do without subsidies.

But, as it is, can't sell milk, can't raise animals, can't sell animals, can't transport animals, have to have all these id's, spend a fortune on vet certs, can't sell eggs.

The list goes on and on. And as if the gov and agencies weren't enough here comes the animal and enviro whackos making agri business even tougher to do.


If you want to get rid of subsidies fine, but start helping out in lobbying against activists and relaxing laws.

[labette]

"So far, Europe has failed to match the U.S. proposal, and there has been little enthusiasm for it in Congress." {from your article}

Don't know about current European thinking, but as recently as a decade ago, there were still people who remembered what it was like to starve. But I doubt if this is still their reasoning.