Or the plan in Illinois to "harvest" the Canadian geese that live at so many subdivisions and corporate parks for the poor to eat? We're not that hungry people said.
Doesn't dumping high calorie, high fat, high cholesterol food undermine government wellness and school lunch programs which emphasize vegetables, fiber and exercise?
Finally isn't the hallmark of a capitalist versus command economy demand? When it's there you become a Bill Gates and when it's not, an AOL?
Isn't an oversupply of milk, pork or beef the market's own rejection slip? As in 8 track tapes and pantyhose?
No NASDA's Meat the Need program which it admits "promotes the policy of providing nutritious meat and dairy products to families while clearing excess inventory of those products," is just an industry-first-public-second initiative which makes the poor into a client state.
Why not create a program called Light Their Need giving cigarette vouchers to the poor? Tobacco farmers probably need assistance too.
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