• nooneescapesthelaw@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Because people view their products as necessities to everyday life. People want to eat meat and and (real) cheese no matter what.

    If without subsidies it becomes cheaper to import these types of foods, it becomes a national security issue.

    Plus without subsidies this stuff gets more expensive, so people will start complaining

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      1 year ago

      Agreed. From a national security perspective, the entire population is always 3 meals from riots, and the opec oil embargo showed that oil/energy contributes more than you would think to unrest.