Oddbean new post about login | logout Subsidize regen beef and curtail import/export markets Can do this with other meat products too
What if we just stopped subsidizing everything and let the markets figure it out, though? I know. Radical idea… 🙄
🚨Extremist alert 🚨
And to be fair, if you subsidize corn/soy/monoculture sludge, also subsidize real food in regen food - beef, real milk etc.. Monoculture is artificially picked to be the winner today.
Fact of the matter is that US farmers operate on razor thin margins, so they grow what they are paid to grow I don’t think subsidies are outright bad—they’re a tool that can be used for good! My thought is that subsidizing regen ag would have a positive second order effect of rehabilitating depleted topsoils.