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ButterflyEffect · 2031 days ago · link · · parent · post: Huge reduction in meat-eating ‘essential’ to avoid climate breakdown
Based solely on the USDA’s national average farm-gate price and national average costs of production, Clark says American dairy farmers lost money every year from 2005 to 2016. This seems incredibly complex though, when you start to consider things like margin protections and exporting, right? How do you reduce subsidies without financially wrecking dairy farmers, and without causing an upheaval to the dairy customs of the average consumer? (Which is kind of the point in the long run...)USDA data reveals that for more than a decade, U.S. farm gate prices for milk fail to cover costs of production.”