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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Apr 2015

      1. Why does agriculture get so heavily subsidized almost everywhere in developed world?

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Apr 2015
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      2. The usual explanation for agricultural subsidies is political: farmers are over-represented in most polities.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Apr 2015
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      3. But I think the real reason for farm subsidies is actually nationalism: no nation wants to depend on its food security on another country

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Apr 2015

      4. But farm subsidies have perverse effects not just on economics but also ecology (see California's water problems).

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        2. Borners‏ @Borners1 6 Apr 2015
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          @HeerJeet Although the European case is somewhat complicated by diplomacy, the UK, Dutch are very anti-it,

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        3. Borners‏ @Borners1 6 Apr 2015
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          @HeerJeet And about later Urbanisers having agrarian political holdovers, France, Japan, S.Korea come to mind, to a degree even US

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        1. Baba Kobe‏ @Vandr0ss 6 Apr 2015
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          .@HeerJeet a huge issue seems to be that we dissociate agriculture from ecology more generally. (I.e water stress as a result of feeding)

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        1. gg‏ @rock9736 6 Apr 2015
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          @HeerJeet Is there any truth to subsidies making food cheaper? Especially re: U.S. corn subsidies, and then putting corn product everywhere?

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        1. Carlos Irizarry‏ @GoyaGokou 6 Apr 2015
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          @HeerJeet China invaded Tibet to secure it's water supply.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Apr 2015
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          5. In California case we see opening of fissure between nationalist agricultural policy & ecology. That fissure likely to widen in future.

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        3. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 6 Apr 2015
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          @HeerJeet Not sure you can separate political and nationalist; why is food security seen as such an issue?

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        1. Ben Thapa‏ @beebeetaps 6 Apr 2015
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          @HeerJeet The agricultural industry in CA is fairly efficient in using the water - but they do indeed use an enormous chunk.

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        1. Nicholas Frota‏ @nonlinear 6 Apr 2015
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          .@HeerJeet @LoFiAndWhatNot We should start calling farm bill FOOD bill instead.

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