{"id":4198,"date":"2010-03-07T23:29:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T22:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2010-03-08T15:02:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T14:02:20","slug":"when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a-swiss-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=4198","title":{"rendered":"When I grow up, I want to be a Swiss cow"},"content":{"rendered":"

This video, that I shot this morning in the outskirts of Gstaad, shows how well cows live in Switzerland. And it shouldn\u00b4t surprise you, since in Switzerland according to the Becker-Posner Blog<\/a>, 68% of farmer’s income comes in the form of a government subsidy. A billion of people on this planet live on less than a dollar a day. The average European cow gets $2.7 per day, and Swiss cows get way more than that. Here’s another interesting article<\/a> on subsidies and how unfair their distribution is.<\/p>\n

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If you understand Spanish here’s a similar article<\/a> but the video has a special star.<\/p>\n

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This video, that I shot this morning in the outskirts of Gstaad, shows how well cows live in Switzerland. And it shouldn\u00b4t surprise you, since in Switzerland according to the Becker-Posner Blog, 68% of farmer’s income comes in the form of a government subsidy. A billion of people on this planet live on less than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t