alt Hacker News> 1. The EU spends enormous sums subsidising farmers.
As if it was a charity lmao, this is a top priority, before defense even, food security will become more and more of a problem, that and water
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pfdietz • today at 3:58 PM
It shows free trade was a hypocritical charade even before Trump. Europe spent years inventing reasons why US grain and soybeans had to be excluded. GMO witch hunting, for example.
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But EU does not pay farmers to farm efficiently and produce more food but does it to keep inefficient ones going so not much to do with actual food security.