Posted on 10/04/2009 4:43:10 PM PDT by 10Ring
I buy organic milk. There is a real quality difference over the regular store and larger brands. With the other milk it rarely made it to the expiration dates without going bad. The organic milk can last longer than a week after the expiration date without going bad.
Ok get ready so pay what food really costs to produce. Like 3.00 for a loaf of bread or 5.00 per gallon of milk.
End Farm Subsidies.
Absolutely.
End the Nixon idea of get big or get out.
So you an expert on agriculture. If you don’t know what you are talking about STFU!
Options would include canning it for export, dehydrating it for survivalists, exporting dried and canned form for cheap charitable donations. Canned cheese, dried yogurt ... long term products will have longer time in which they can be sold at a profit.
I feel sorry for farmers having worked on a farm in my teens.
They buy their implements and tools retail and sell their product wholesale.
They get shaved coming and going.
Apparently in some countries they powder it and mix it with water and sell it as long-term milk.
blech
Oh, thanks, I see, due to subsidies, I don't. Pay the full price for my milk and bread.
So, if I don't pay the full price for milk and bread, who is it that is paying the difference?
Another “Expert”!
I'll admit it... I'm part of the problem. I'm lactose intolerant. I have barely bought any milk for years (with the occasional exception of some "Lactaid" when I'm REALLY dying for oreos and milk - maybe once or twice a year)
I used to LOVE drinking milk.
Mark
Milk cow were slaughtered, chickens and baby chicks too, fruit destroyed by the tons, to keep prices up. No it wasn’t FDR. It was THIS YEAR.!
Now look into the future, 2-3 years, once all the inventory is used.......The reason for the propaganda about cows causing CO2 emissions is BS. It’s because they know they have slaughtered the meat to keep prices up now.!
Empty handed. There will be shortages, and what you can get will be ridiculously priced. Prices will be skyward...
The folks at Dean Foods aren’t exactly nice guys. They’d buy up small, regional companies, keep the labels, ditch the employees, and outsource production. Their business plan was built on ravishing small town America.
How about Cash for Utters program?
Yeah, Feingold wasn’t too worried about it when milk was $4.00 a gallon.
Replace “Dean Foods” with Anheuser-Busch. I know it’s now InBev, but I think you’ll get the point.
It sounds like you may have a great deal of knowledge on the farm subsidy issue and I thought that you could help me better understand the issue.
You said that my milk and bread would cost my family more if it were not for the subsidies that are paid to farmers.
However, you could not quite explain were the government gets the money to pay the farmers their subsidies.
Does the government have a big farm where they grow Hundred Dollar Bills as a cash crop and where the chickens lay Golden Eggs?
Or perhaps, the government has a big ranch where the cattle instead of pooping big piles of BS, poop big pile of money?
So please explain, where does the government get the money to pay these subsidies to the farmers?
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