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Pete Buttigieg: “Policy is driving [the closure of dairy farms].”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Pete Talks With Wisconsin Dairy Farmers

Published | Video Starts at 00:50

100 horse tractor was 80,000. Now that same hundred horse tractor is 170,000. But it feels like that's a choice, right? Like Policy is driving [the closure of dairy farms]. that. It is. Which means it doesn't have to be that way. That's the thing I keep thinking is these are not, it's not like they're these divine laws that have said this is the way that things are going to go. (00:50–00:53)

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Asserts that policy decisions are influencing the closure of dairy farms.

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