“I’m betting most dairy farmers don’t drink Kool Aid.”
I suspect they do. Dairy farming is tightly regulated, price controlled, and subsidized. Watch what the dairy farmers do if any of this is discontinued.
when you have to compete with unregulated suppliers who have access to slave labor, in an environment so overly regulated that you need to have a lawyer on staff, a subsidy might just be the only way the playing field can be less tilted against you.