Don't know how old you are but I am 81 and we could not afford butter as far back as the 40' s because farm subsidies then in force to keep its price high. The gov actually bought any surplus and included it in commodity packages.
Don't know how old you are but I am 81 and we could not afford butter as far back as the 40' s because farm subsidies then in force to keep its price high. The gov actually bought any surplus and included it in commodity packages.
The Feds have had their grip on commercial and private farming since FDR. One of its favorite games was market manipulation of commodities. Americans like to believe that only countries like the Soviet Union and China control food production. Ha I say.
Several years ago SCOTUS ruled in favor of a CA raisin grower who took the 'raisin commission' to court because it was requiring him to ruin current yields because there were too many one year and it would lower prices. He's like, I have a right to produce as many raisins as I want and market them himself. Court agreed!
We may be remembering the same thing. My mom would take a plastic bag full of white goop with a spot of red dye in it. She would then squeeze and massage that goop until the dye spread throughout and turned it yellowish. That?
Micheal, yes I remember it well. I always wanted to be able to squish the red dot. Little did anybody know what poison it was. Everybody in the city from the farm was too excited about the newfangled, modern stuff. Look where that has taken us!
Don't know how old you are but I am 81 and we could not afford butter as far back as the 40' s because farm subsidies then in force to keep its price high. The gov actually bought any surplus and included it in commodity packages.
The Feds have had their grip on commercial and private farming since FDR. One of its favorite games was market manipulation of commodities. Americans like to believe that only countries like the Soviet Union and China control food production. Ha I say.
Several years ago SCOTUS ruled in favor of a CA raisin grower who took the 'raisin commission' to court because it was requiring him to ruin current yields because there were too many one year and it would lower prices. He's like, I have a right to produce as many raisins as I want and market them himself. Court agreed!
I have not fond memories of Government limited oleomargerine being doled out instead of butter. No clue as to when that was.
We may be remembering the same thing. My mom would take a plastic bag full of white goop with a spot of red dye in it. She would then squeeze and massage that goop until the dye spread throughout and turned it yellowish. That?
Micheal, yes I remember it well. I always wanted to be able to squish the red dot. Little did anybody know what poison it was. Everybody in the city from the farm was too excited about the newfangled, modern stuff. Look where that has taken us!
Right and I hated the stuff. It was a way to lessen one's desire for buttery effects.