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Originally Posted by Kamui4356
While this might suck for the third world, you need to be careful about what subsidies you're talking about. Subsidizing corn production is not the best policy, but subsidizing farmers to leave part of their fields fallow each year is absolutely essential. Even though farmers know why it's a good idea to do so, they wouldn't have much of a choice in the matter if not for the subsidies. They still need to pay the bills after all. This quickly leads to soil depletion and a new dust bowl which would suck for everyone.
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Well obviously it's a good idea to subsidize good farming practices. I was more referring to outright subsidy of food, particularly as seen in the EU.