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kleinbl00 · 3858 days ago · link · · parent · post: More alarmist food and ag stuff that we should really, really listen to but won't | Michael Pollan

A plurality of farming regulations and subsidies in place right now were created solely to bring about the destruction of the Soviet Union.

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thundara · 3857 days ago · link ·

Oh, slightly different story from the one I'd remembered. Looking it up, the wikipedial says that subsidies I think I was thinking about started in the 20s-30s, but ended in the 70s?...

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kleinbl00 · 3857 days ago · link ·

A large portion of the Republican manifesto has been rolling back the New Deal. '20s and '30s stuff was all about keeping The Red Menace at bay through selective socialism. Huey Long was pushing hard from the left and Prescott Bush and buddies were pushing hard from the right, so FDR went big into subsidies.

Nixon and Ford were bargaining with grain and corn exports to the Soviet Union so they made sure you got lots of money for raising lots of grain and corn. Crop rotation was considered somehow communist.