Part of this is also the demand. Especially in places like the us, a lot of food is wasted, or nearly spoiled before it gets to the customer, or just straight up processed into heckin’ fuel and plastic.

That’s not to say that it’s a bit odd that subsidies from the cold war are still in effect today, and that those subsidies are being used to lobby for more subsidies :/

It does make my 3d printer filament cheap tho, thank you American taxpayers!