The US dairy industry is in a state of crisis. The average price of milk is half what it was last year, and dairy farmers around the country are suffering unprecedented losses.
Last Wednesday, Barack Obama signed legislation providing three hundred fifty million dollars in emergency subsidies to these farmers.
But at the same time that President Obama was publicly supporting the nation’s farmers, he was secretly engaging in a back room deal to undermine the dairy industry by allowing Israeli dairy products to enter the US untaxed.
Investigative journalist Alison Weir, who broke the story on her website IfAmericansKnew dot org, says that she was surprised to discover this presidential decree – and even more surprised when no one in the Department of Agriculture knew anything about it.
...Jim Cron, the Executive Director of the Oregon Dairy Farmer’s Association, explains why these tariffs are important for local farmers... says that this is the kind of thing that hurts farmers in Oregon and around the country...
Listen to Cron's comments here
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