Reply #5: This comes up in the West all the time... [View All]

[Robb]

Or as we say out here, all politics is about water.

The pound of lettuce takes something absurd like one one-hundredth the amount of water to produce as the pound of beef. But as long as subsidies keep beef more profitable, that's what's gonna get the water.

Again, this is the problem with a market economy. It may do a lot of clever things, but it can't be counted on to do the right thing.