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COVID-19 Relief Bill Includes $500 Million to Buy American Dairy
The proposed Bipartisan COVID-19 Emergency Relief Act of 2020 set to be signed into law includes $500 million in government funding allocated towards the "Dairy Donation Program" which provides payments from the government to dairy producers.
The Dairy Donation Program functions by providing a price floor to the dairy industry at which eligible dairy producers may provide milk for distribution to low-income individuals in exchange for reimbursement from the government.
As a corporate government assistance program for the airy industry, the Dairy Donation Program is a part of the ecosystem of corporate welfare whereby the dairy industry lobbies government for subsidies that allow it to remain dominant, even with massive reductions in popular support. These programs skew the industry away from plant milks and subsidize secondary and tertiary markets of the animal abuse industry. These subsidies are the reason for the proliferation of bone-char in the production of American sugar, and the ubiquity of cheap, environmentally toxic, and unhealthy milk and cheese byproducts in the American market.
$500 million of the $9.9 billion in the proposed bill set aside for US Department of Agriculture programs is allocated to the Dairy Donation Program. The proposed program operates through dairy producers partnering with non-profit dairy distributors in exchange for a reimbursement price-point pegged to the milk equivalents and class of milk product.
Commodity purchases by the government of milk used to produce “government cheese” in the earlier COVID relief programs had significant impacts on the wholesale prices of cheese, further subsidizing the dairy industry. Animal agriculture as an industry causes significant environmentally dangerous effects, including producing animal waste in quantities that cannot be safely broken down in our ecosystems. The cesspools that form around these dairy farms and processing plants result in significant health problems for members living in those communities. During the COVID pandemic, the animal agriculture and related meat processing industry has been a significant source of spreading biological disease.
Subjugating animals as a commodity is unethical, and stealing bodily fluids from animal bodies to poison the long-term health of disadvantaged Americans is a moronic policy decision. The Dairy Donation Program is another effort of the dying dairy industry to prolong its unnatural existence. The Dairy Donation Program represents a 100x increase in Congress’s earlier continuous funding from a similar program in the 2018 Farm Bill, the Milk Donation Reimbursement Program, and is a dramatic acceleration of government support for this harmful and unethical industry.
Read the full proposed text of the bill here.
As a corporate government assistance program for the airy industry, the Dairy Donation Program is a part of the ecosystem of corporate welfare whereby the dairy industry lobbies government for subsidies that allow it to remain dominant, even with massive reductions in popular support. These programs skew the industry away from plant milks and subsidize secondary and tertiary markets of the animal abuse industry. These subsidies are the reason for the proliferation of bone-char in the production of American sugar, and the ubiquity of cheap, environmentally toxic, and unhealthy milk and cheese byproducts in the American market.
$500 million of the $9.9 billion in the proposed bill set aside for US Department of Agriculture programs is allocated to the Dairy Donation Program. The proposed program operates through dairy producers partnering with non-profit dairy distributors in exchange for a reimbursement price-point pegged to the milk equivalents and class of milk product.
Commodity purchases by the government of milk used to produce “government cheese” in the earlier COVID relief programs had significant impacts on the wholesale prices of cheese, further subsidizing the dairy industry. Animal agriculture as an industry causes significant environmentally dangerous effects, including producing animal waste in quantities that cannot be safely broken down in our ecosystems. The cesspools that form around these dairy farms and processing plants result in significant health problems for members living in those communities. During the COVID pandemic, the animal agriculture and related meat processing industry has been a significant source of spreading biological disease.
Subjugating animals as a commodity is unethical, and stealing bodily fluids from animal bodies to poison the long-term health of disadvantaged Americans is a moronic policy decision. The Dairy Donation Program is another effort of the dying dairy industry to prolong its unnatural existence. The Dairy Donation Program represents a 100x increase in Congress’s earlier continuous funding from a similar program in the 2018 Farm Bill, the Milk Donation Reimbursement Program, and is a dramatic acceleration of government support for this harmful and unethical industry.
Read the full proposed text of the bill here.
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99.9999% of all dairy cows in the US are eventually murdered themselves for hamburgers. Their babies were taken from them. The males were often murdered for veal. The female calves themselves are grown for slavery.
Vegetarians and vegans are forced through taxes to subsidize the dairy subsidies, the food stamps which purchase meat, fish, eggs and dairy, which could instead be fruit and vegetable stamps.
Only animal flesh is less productive per acre than dairy.
A gallon of milk takes many times more energy to produce than a gallon of cider or nut milk.
Milk is one reason the US has the most overweight population in the world. Many of our children are told to drink milk in school, milk designed to produce a 1000 lb animal in 12 months. milk intended by nature for the mother cow's baby who if a boy is removed from her and murdered for veal.
Vegetarians and vegans are forced through taxes to subsidize the dairy subsidies, the food stamps which purchase meat, fish, eggs and dairy, which could instead be fruit and vegetable stamps.
Only animal flesh is less productive per acre than dairy.
A gallon of milk takes many times more energy to produce than a gallon of cider or nut milk.
Milk is one reason the US has the most overweight population in the world. Many of our children are told to drink milk in school, milk designed to produce a 1000 lb animal in 12 months. milk intended by nature for the mother cow's baby who if a boy is removed from her and murdered for veal.
For more information:
http://notmilk.com
Before Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri began working to disenfranchise Pennsylvanians and remove their right to endorse their choice for president, he sued to take away Californians' votes to make factory farm chickens' lives a little more bearable with larger cages. But even the Republican dominated Supreme Court would not approve of the lawsuit.
https://apnews.com/article/fccd9468bdd24801bb24adb2f0a04716
the state of California
http://ippl.org
http://hatchery.mercyforanimals.org
https://apnews.com/article/fccd9468bdd24801bb24adb2f0a04716
the state of California
http://ippl.org
http://hatchery.mercyforanimals.org
For more information:
https://apnews.com/article/fccd9468bdd2480...
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