European critics—usually defending the Common Agricultural Policy and other European featherbedding measures—can never resist taking a pop at United States dairy market supports, consumer subsidies, etc. If you are a free market evangelist, both systems are indefensible—although privately, Europeans are jealous as hell over what you've got and what they've lost, and the amazing level of political support the industry has in the U.S., compared with virtually zero in Europe these days. But if you are an unprejudiced analyst, the interesting thing is how these very different systems impact on the actual milk processing industries themselves.
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