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Unbelievable waste! The government on the one hand is spending who knows how much on campaigns to get us to eat healthier and at the same time spends $12 Million Dollars to help Dominoes stuff us with heavier laden cheese pizzas in order to give a boost to the Dairy Farmers, whose hormone stuffed cows are now producing more milk than the we can consume since we've all been ordered to shape up and drink less whole milk!
When will all people wake up and realize the Government has been given too much control, too much of our money and is just a big overbloated slob that is wasting our money.
Don't blame government. Blame the dairy industry. They are heavily subsidized and have pushed for regulations that create a minimum price for milk, limits competition & newcomers, impose import restrictions, give export subsidies, and pay them for unsold product. It's only natural that the industry & gov't wants to pimp excess product.
Does the right wing want to remove these regulations & subsidies? Let the dairy industry fail? Good luck getting tea partiers from the heartland to vote against regulations & subsidies & handouts that benefit them.
The Food Pyramid the USDA has posted in schools is a sham, really. The food industry lobbies the USDA to place their food prominently on the pyramid. It's the food pyramid's focus on meat and milk that's partly why so many American children are unhealthy and obese. Industrial meat and milk is full of way too many chemicals and hormones. People wonder why their 8 year old daughter is hitting puberty so early? This is why.
People need to seriously consider cutting down on meat and dairy intake, or eliminating it entirely from their diet. At least purchase these items from a local, organic farmer if you can find one; never buy them at Wal-mart or any other grocery store. They are the ones who sell industrial meat and milk, the kind that's making us fat and sick.
Don't believe the diary industry's ploy that you need to drink milk for calcium; you can get calcium from a variety of foods without having to drink their hormone-laden milk.
Don't blame government. Blame the dairy industry. They are heavily subsidized and have pushed for regulations that create a minimum price for milk, limits competition & newcomers, impose import restrictions, give export subsidies, and pay them for unsold product. It's only natural that the industry & gov't wants to pimp excess product.
Does the right wing want to remove these regulations & subsidies? Let the dairy industry fail? Good luck getting tea partiers from the heartland to vote against regulations & subsidies & handouts that benefit them.
I DO blame the government AND the dairy industry. BUT, mostly the Government. Just like children can ask and ask and push for something, the parent aka government doesn't have to give in. But when you have BIG, engorged Government whose pockets are just stuffed with OUR money, its easy for them to just say, sure, here's $12 million dollars, honey.
Get rid of big government. Get rid of big government subsidies. This is nothing but big waste.
There seems to be a discrepancy here. The blog you link to claims that "the USDA-sponsored corporation Dairy Management was dispatched to help Domino's develop pizzas with 40% more cheese. DM spent $12 million dollars to market this new "Legends" line."
You use that quote to conclude that the Government spent 12 million dollars of taxpayer money on this marketing campaign.
However, I went to the website of the Dairy Management corporation. Here's a quote from their website:
"Ever since it was created in 1995, the work of Dairy Management Inc.™ (DMI) has been supported entirely by the nation’s 90,000-plus dairy producers, who invest 15 cents for every one hundred pounds of milk they sell. This investment is called the dairy checkoff. Dairy producers make up the DMI board of directors and guide the use of checkoff funds."
Don't blame government. Blame the dairy industry. They are heavily subsidized and have pushed for regulations that create a minimum price for milk, limits competition & newcomers, impose import restrictions, give export subsidies, and pay them for unsold product. It's only natural that the industry & gov't wants to pimp excess product.
Does the right or left wing want to remove these regulations & subsidies? Let the dairy industry fail? Good luck getting tea partiers or Obamabots to vote against regulations & subsidies & handouts that benefit them.
There seems to be a discrepancy here. The blog you link to claims that "the USDA-sponsored corporation Dairy Management was dispatched to help Domino's develop pizzas with 40% more cheese. DM spent $12 million dollars to market this new "Legends" line."
You use that quote to conclude that the Government spent 12 million dollars of taxpayer money on this marketing campaign.
However, I went to the website of the Dairy Management corporation. Here's a quote from their website:
"Ever since it was created in 1995, the work of Dairy Management Inc.™ (DMI) has been supported entirely by the nation’s 90,000-plus dairy producers, who invest 15 cents for every one hundred pounds of milk they sell. This investment is called the dairy checkoff. Dairy producers make up the DMI board of directors and guide the use of checkoff funds."
Try looking at this link from the New York Times. Especially note where it talks about, "Dairy Management, whose annual budget approaches $140 million, is largely financed by a government-mandated fee on the dairy industry...it also receives several million dollars a year from the Agriculture Department..."
Correct. But I was responding to the OP who thinks the Tea Party has the solution.
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