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The Disclosure Podcast

Ep 19: The Last Bailout - Why We Need to Reform Agricultural Subsidies

The Disclosure Podcast

Ed Winters

Ethics, Politics, Whole Foods, Society & Culture, Education, Animals, Morality, Veganism, Philosophy, Vegan, Plant Based Diet

5.01.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week I discuss the $19 billion bail out that the Trump administration has given to US farmers, and the wider issue of subsidising animal agriculture in general. I also discuss the UK government’s new plan for subsiding agriculture in the wake of leaving the EU, and how their new system could actually pave the way for a complete reform that would incentivise the shift to a plant-based food system. ✺ To support the show & get access to exclusive monthly podcast episodes: http://www.pa...

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0:00.0

And the Hello everyone and welcome to the next episode of the Disclosure Podcast. I hope that you're all doing well and I hope you're still

0:23.6

safe and I hope that everything that's happening right now you are able to

0:27.5

adjust to things as they're changing and whatnot. If you've been listening to

0:31.7

the podcast before you'll know that most of these

0:33.9

podcast episodes in recent weeks and I suppose a recent couple of months now isn't it?

0:37.6

It started off with this similar idea of just saying hope you're okay and hope you're

0:41.4

safe because obviously we're still in this

0:43.2

situation aren't we we still in the pandemic and although things are getting a little bit better

0:46.8

in many places things are getting worse in many places and things are still not great

0:51.0

anywhere so I do hope you're all safe and I hope you're

0:53.2

looking after yourselves and taking the precautions that are necessary and advised and

1:00.0

practical. But thank you so much for tuning into this week's podcast episode.

1:05.0

And last week's episode was talking about slaughterhouse workers, focusing on how COVID-19 is affecting them.

1:10.0

And I suppose this week is a little bit more talking about farmers and how COVID-19 is affecting them and their role in the supply chain.

1:18.0

I uploaded the video on my latest upload, my most recent upload, was responding to a CNN news report. If you've seen the

1:26.8

video you'll notice how ridiculous the actual report is but the video

1:31.1

could kind of simplify it down is talking about what it's very simple in theme anyway.

1:35.8

But it's talking about for these pig farmers in Minnesota I think it was who were very worried because now that Smithfield

1:42.4

the big Slaughterhouse in South Dakota has closed,

1:46.2

the pigs that they've raised to be killed are no longer able to go to the

1:49.7

destination that they would be bred to be killed in.

1:52.6

And now the farmers have to kill them on the farms themselves.

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