Billions of Pounds of Unwanted Meat and Dairy Are Stockpiled in the U.S. – Why Are We Still Subsidizing Factory Farms?
The staggering surplus of meat and cheese is a prime example of just how broken our current food system is. With all the government subsidies and corruption involved in the meat and dairy industries, it can be difficult to comprehend just how big of a problem it all is.
ONE GREEN PLANET: ‘Most of us are aware of how far industrialized animal agriculture, aka factory farms, have spread in the U.S., encroaching on public lands and leading to the near extinction of wild horses and burros and the hunting of beloved wildlife like wolves. Not to mention, these factories are an environmental menace, responsible for high emissions of harmful greenhouse gases (methane), air pollution, and cesspools of waste that leach into precious groundwater and make people dangerously ill.
With all the government subsidies and corruption involved in the meat and dairy industries, it can be difficult to comprehend just how big of a problem it all is, and now there are even more shocking facts regarding meat and dairy that will have you picking your jaw up off the floor… According to the USDA, there are currently 1.39 BILLION pounds of surplus cheese in the U.S., which is the largest domestic reserve of cheese varieties on record. And when it comes to meat (beef, pork, poultry), there are 2.5 billion pounds of surplus, which is also a record, and that’s just here in the U.S. alone…
This staggering surplus of meat and cheese is a prime example of just how broken our current food system is. Even though the average American diet is heavier in meat and dairy than most other nations’ diets, government-subsidized Big Meat and Dairy is still producing far too much… Additionally, this surplus is a bad thing for the economy (meat prices are predicted to drop as a result of this excess) and the small American farmer who cannot compete with the monopoly of factory farms… With this alarming degree of stockpiled meat and dairy that no one wants, it is high time the animal agriculture industry wakes up and makes immediate changes to stop this unacceptable degree of waste of resources, and innocent lives’. SOURCE…
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