But you are right — the labelling would wind up being irrelevant to consumer behavior cause the labels would be on so many products. But the point would be that it’d be out there as a constant reminder of how the gov has insert itself into the market, for better or worse.

I see some good arguments for and against…

I’d love to see farm subsidies and tariffs decline or be eliminated, but as mentioned, is it worth the increase in government oversight leading to a larger beaurorcracy? And, of course, just because tariffs are eliminated, do we really want to drink milk imported from China, for example, as pointed out by Ian Random? Hmmm….the answer doesn’t look so simple.

But hey, keep trying, there’s gotta be a way!

Right now pretty much every dairy farmer in the country is subsidizing somebody else’s cheap milk. That includes farmers in California.
Cost of production in the USA, where nearly every breath a cow takes is inspected by somebody, equals at least sixteen dollars per hundredweight. The price paid to farmers right now, set, by the way by the government, is between ten and twelve dollars per hundredweight.

How much of a decrease in price have you seen in the stores?

Of course, if our dairy farmers pack it in and you don’t mind melamine and leather powder in your milk, China’s fast-growing dairy industry will be delighted to fill all your needs……