So God Made A Farmer

[gaelic cowboy]

....And yet we haven't outsourced food processing either. Well, we haven't anyway, agricultural collectives(Tine, Nortura, Prior and "that last one") exist for all our agricultural products. Except frozen fish, of course, but fishing is weirdly enough always left out whenever farmers talk about agriculture and food... Perhaps because our fish runs a huge surplus, instead of needing subsidies?

Fishing is effectively the same as mining a free resource.

an example of an outsourced food processor/

Like I've said; I have absolutely zero objections to government assistance to businesses and industries. What I object to is the special status farmers want to have. They believe they are more important and more deserving of state attention than, say, a shoe producer. They are not, and as soon as they dump that superior attitude I'll happily stuff 'em full of other peoples gold.

Shoe production is a secondary industry while farming is a primary industry, the raw material leather is not very valuable unless given to the shoe maker.