ERD50
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We obviously have a different definition of the word dumped...my definition is that farmers produced milk knowing it will be dumped to get government money. ....
OK, I was talking about just plain old "dumped" (physically), regardless of the reason. That's how I read the posts, was milk currently being dumped or not.
Obviously, if zero milk was being physically "dumped", then no dumping could be blamed on subsidies. It just seemed like a good, and easiest, first step in the process.
I'll go out on a limb here, and without doing further research, I'll make an educated guess that subsidies are not the reason for that physical milk dumping, since the % is so small. Like you say, just some waste due to production of a perishable product. That actually seems very low, considering.
I think that puts us in agreement? It was just the terminology tripping us up?
-ERD50