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by packet_nerd 2546 days ago
I'd always heard that dairy gets quite a lot of subsidies, including from advertising like the "Got milk?" ads. A quick search seems to support this. It'd be interesting to hear from someone who's dug into this a lot more.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/dairy-subsidie...

https://qz.com/944630/the-us-government-program-behind-the-g...

https://www.idausa.org/government-meat-dairy-advertising/

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How is the National Diary Council paying for advertising, which is a lobbyist group made up of dairies, a subsidy?

Their subsidies are in things like the farm bill where they are protected by tariffs and our weird obsession with pasteurization. Our dairy industry does a bunch of exporting milk powder to the 3rd world.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bethkaiserman/2018/12/30/farm-b...