Where do the farmers come into this? Wouldn't they benefit from healthy eating as much as unhealthy eating regardless of how subsidised they are?
In Australia of those four we only have the property developers at a local level and the farmers on a state or national level. The farmers don't have the same level of subsidies or protection, either. The property developer leads to places without public transport in this state, although that's helped a fair amount by the government being appallingly bad at managing public transport. The benefit of public transport over cars in this case is that there's more temptation to walk. On the other hand the developers want to build denser suburbs closer to the centre of the city.
So perhaps we're well positioned in Australia for the sort of policy you're thinking of. It wouldn't be unprecedented policy here but there's plenty of room for something more coherent and comprehensive.
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Date: 2009-02-26 01:40 pm (UTC)In Australia of those four we only have the property developers at a local level and the farmers on a state or national level. The farmers don't have the same level of subsidies or protection, either. The property developer leads to places without public transport in this state, although that's helped a fair amount by the government being appallingly bad at managing public transport. The benefit of public transport over cars in this case is that there's more temptation to walk. On the other hand the developers want to build denser suburbs closer to the centre of the city.
So perhaps we're well positioned in Australia for the sort of policy you're thinking of. It wouldn't be unprecedented policy here but there's plenty of room for something more coherent and comprehensive.