Corn Subsidies Fuel Animal Mistreatment, Factory Farming
Factory farming of animals was designed as a way to use up as much of stored commodity grains as possible. The efficiency is not in producing food, it is instead efficient only in removing the over production.
THE BIPARTISAN PRESS: ‘It may sound counter-intuitive, but the primary problem today in achieving the ethical treatment of farm animals in the United States is the hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to America’s corn system. The most important reason animals are raised the way they are is not because of profits or efficiency of animal husbandry methods, or even due to consumer demand, but rather to be part of the way the buffer stock scheme for corn and soy are managed.
We subsidize the overproduction of grains. Since that produces far more grain than every man woman and child in the whole world could possibly ever eat, we need to find ways to get rid of this excess glut… We need to somehow get rid of that mountain of excess grain the government spent hundreds of billions of annually subsidizing.
Factory farming of animals was designed as a way to use up as much of this stored commodity grains as possible. The efficiency is not in producing food for us, it is instead efficient only in removing the over production. This is the primary reason even things that don’t eat grains are fed grains. For example cows eat grass and forages rather than grains, but in feedlots we use massive quantities to fatten them quickly. Or look at a bag of dog chow ingredients, you might be surprised…
The main reason for the abusive factory farming system is the over use of government subsidies and regulatory burden that caused the ethical problem in the first place… The government actually needs to defund this centralized monster they purposely created.. It would be better for public health, the farmers, the environment and even better for the animals too’. SOURCE…
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