> What you have wittiness [sic] is done as part of a tourist attraction in truth. You have been misled.
Bruce, I don't doubt that Portuguese agriculture is subsidized, just as American and Canadian farmers are subsidized. But I think you have the relationship between the Azorean tourism and dairy industries backwards.
First off, although tourism is a significant part of their economy, it's relatively small compared to agriculture. And the dairy industry is, I think, the single largest sector within agriculture.
Also, although the Azorean dairy farms may be quaint, their dairy processing plants are anything but. There's a lot of them, they're big and they appear to be very modern. If the purpose of dairy farming is to create a bucolic facade for the benefit of gullible tourists, they could simply pay the farmers to dump their milk on the ground. Instead, they produce a lot of products that are shipped to the mainland. Where they seem to have no problem competing with the rest of the EU.
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