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There are trade-offs in any social policy changes. ChatGPT4o says average American family spends 10-15% of annual income on food. Were the optimal Chris Jones ag-world to come into being tomorrow to what level would this rise? Your estimate?

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Good question and I donтАЩt have an objective answer but bear in mind a couple of things

Leaving the pollution for the public to deal with is a subsidy to the industry

And meat esp beef is not that cheap anymore largely because food giants that control the marketplace. They also fight against regulation of the pollution

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Because the proletariat is under compensated.

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As a producer of real, nutrient, dense, pesticide, free, certified organic food, I donтАЩt give a fuck if the poor people starve. Are used to want to feed the world. Now I just want to die. Producing real food with a real soil building practices is a high art. it should be compensated far more than it is.

Switching paradigms of huge subsidy programs like snap and WIC to farm to family model based on a farm to school highly successful model that should be in place for breakfast and lunch at every public school in America would put trillions of dollars into small landholder pockets and high-quality food into over 100 million Americans. How expensive is it to cut the corporate profits from a $2 trillion expense?

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