The Bearded Vegans cited the Vegan Justice League and Agriculture Fairness Alliance in a recent podcast. Fielding a question from Coley E. on Instagram about animal ag subsidies, Andy and Paul discussed what VJL and AFA are up to.

Thanks, Paul and Andy! As tokens of appreciation, we offer you a 10,000 ft view primer on the topic: “TOP TEN ANIMAL AG SUBSIDIES” – We hope you like it!

In addition, VJL volunteer, M. Lodge, took inspiration from Andy regarding the injustice of animal ag subsidies. Please accept her New Yorker style cartoon as another token of our appreciation:

Cartoon by M Lodge, Inspired by the Bearded Vegans

Andy’s comment that inspired Michelle:

We’ve gotta start somewhere, and I think you’re right that this is the type of conversation you could have with somebody that’s not vegan and get them on board. Y’know, “hey, we’re spending all this money, your taxpayer money is going, instead of improving your local school, or whatever, is going to have farmers torture cows and then dump the milk out in a field!” Like, I think that anyone could relate to that. – Andy of the Bearded Vegans

The Vegan Justice League educates people about government subsidies and bailouts. And Agriculture Fairness Alliance lobbies for fairness in farm policy. Big animal ag spends about $40 million a year buying influence. In return, they receive billions in the form of subsidized insurance, margin protections, and direct payments via the ‘Market Facilitation Program’. The total value of all subsidies is around $40 billion a year. For the accounting geeks out there – that’s a 1000x ROI! (ROI = Return on Investment) More info here: “TOP TEN ANIMAL AG SUBSIDIES”

With that, we point everyone to Bearded Vegans Episode 210 “Mailbag All The Way”.

Listen to the podcast here (Coley Elizabeth’s question starts at a 54:43 FYI ).

The Bearded Vegans Episode 210 ( thecommentist.com/bearded-vegans/ep210/ )

The Bearded Vegans Episode 210

( starting at 54:43 and ending at 1:04:15)

54:43: Coley Elizabeth on Instagram asked, “Can you talk a little about animal agricultural subsidies, “and how we as vegans can reconcile the fact “that our vegan boycott is being compensated “with tax dollars? “How do we not feel defeated?”

I dunno Paul, we could probably have a whole episode about this where we really delve into what’s exactly happening with our tax dollars, and.- Didn’t we, didn’t we talk about the milk glut Andy?

For the rest of the discussion – listen to the podcast starting 54 min in.