So oat milk is better for the environment?

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Dont count on it staying that way for long, I know a few farmers who already walked away long before all this crap was announced.
We will see more farms turned into pine forest, mark my words.

Not endorsing it but, IF it is more profitable to farm pine trees than food, or convert farmland to housing, instead of growing our own produce, I am wondering how that is any different to relying on imports of products in any other sector, say oil..  It is just market economics in a global economy and letting specific countries do what they do best...

It's not like we get the food any cheaper just because we grow it here

In a similar vein during the time I was orcharding the national Avocado Industry Council identified the single biggest limiting factor to increasing orchard productivity was the rate of increase in land value. Too many avocado growers saw their orchard increasing in value (as potential subdivisional land in most cases) being a greater and surer income stream so why bother investing money and effort into coaxing more tonnage per hectare.

Money, either in the form of income or taxation, is the most effective incentive to drive change in a population.