Dairy subsidies embody a form of institutional and economic racism because non-white school children are proportionately much more likely to be lactose intolerant. Thus, for 70 percent of black kids in public schools, crippling digestive issues are practically mandated by the US Government though its subsidy program for dairy products.
GREENE 2002 Che, July 9, "Not Milk: The USDA, Monsanto, and the U.S. Dairy Industry" AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/story/13557/
With the recent passage of the Farm Bill on May 13, 2002, dairy farmers and processors will receive $2 billion more in subsidies over the next three and a half years, largely realized through price supports that inflate costs for consumers. Dairy subsidies are a carryover from the Depression era, when survival of small dairy farmers was considered essential to maintaining a national food supply. Today, a large chunk of that additional $2 billion in subsidies is going to large dairy farms in twelv