Milk Subsidy? Pro and Cons

[Oerets]

With the talk about the fiscal mess milk subsidies going away has come up. Scare tactics like milk being $6.00 a gal have been put out there. Thoughts on why we need them and others like sugar anyway?


My first guess is let them go away. Make milk be priced accordingly. We give the poor help in food stamps and the likes. Do they not get milk for free?

Or is this another form of corporate welfare and is OK?

Barney

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Oerets

With the talk about the fiscal mess milk subsidies going away has come up. Scare tactics like milk being $6.00 a gal have been put out there. Thoughts on why we need them and others like sugar anyway?


My first guess is let them go away. Make milk be priced accordingly. We give the poor help in food stamps and the likes. Do they not get milk for free?

Or is this another form of corporate welfare and is OK?

Barney

My gut reaction is to wonder why a subsidy that benefits dairy farmers is on the table but the oil depletion allowance isn't.

John

[Oerets]

That would be another cut to make in my plan!



Barney

[Dondilion]

Depends on how we look at milk. Is milk good or bad? Is it a basic requirement?

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Depends on how we look at milk. Is milk good or bad? Is it a basic requirement?

We're the only mammalian species that consumes milk after infancy. In other words, it's not natural, and probably not good for us, to do it.

Cheese, on the other hand..........

John

[finnbow]

I'd say sh*tcan all subsidies, including this one.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Boreas

We're the only mammalian species that consumes milk after infancy. In other words, it's not natural, and probably not good for us, to do it.

Cheese, on the other hand..........

John

Actually, I think cheese and yogurt probably are good for us but that's because they're seriously altered by microorganisms. Milk, butter, ice cream, etc. probably not so much.

John

[bobabode]

Where else would I get my daily steroids and growth hormones? Don't those little bugs in cheese and yogurt use them all up?

You've got my vote, Barney.

[merrylander]

With all the anti biotics in most commercial milk you could be better off without it. The cows get sick easier when the dairymen inject them with that Monsanto crap they then have to use anti biotics.

[bhunter]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I'd say sh*tcan all subsidies, including this one.

A most prudent position. I concur. Perpetual subsidies have no place in an ostensibly free market economy.