The House of Representatives will begin debate this week on the US Farm Bill. This is a $33 billion piece of legislation that has a huge impact on the cost and types of food available to consumers. Critic say that the caparatively huge subsidies to producers of corn, soybeans, grains, oilseeds, and cotton result in the overabundance of highly processed foods in our supermarkets and the epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Why not share the subsidies equally with all kinds of crops? Read more about the Farm Bill at: Watershed Media.org and at Organic Consumers.org.
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That certainly seems to be an idea with some merits. I'm not sure which came first: the highly subsidized farming of junk-food components, or the highly profitable junk-food market that makes high-volume crops of core ingredients necessary. Kind of a which-came-first question: the Coke or the corn syrup?
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