Food is just like any other commodity, if it's cheaper to grow and ship it from overseas than to produce it domestically, then do so.
Posted by
TWuG
Dec 1 '08, 10:17
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If a local farmer or US farmer can produce it more cheaply than a farmer in South America, then that's what'll happen.
To give an example of where subsidies fuck up a market, take sugar.
One family in Florida has effectiovely kept the US market closed to cheaper Caribbean imports of sugar for 50 odd years.
It keeps their profits high and keeps consumer prices high, too. It's also responsible, in part, for the move to high fructose corn syrup as a sweetner instead of sucrose because the barriers have kept sugar from being competitive.
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