seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 23 2007 | food, health, politics, agriculture
A great article that explains how farm subsidies make unhealthy foods cheaper. Two of my friends (Ryan & Galena) independently mentioned it today.
Quoted: Will this year’s farm bill make us fatter and sicker?
Quoted: For most of history, after all, the poor have typically suffered from a shortage of calories, not a surfeit. So how is it that today the people with the least amount of money to spend on food are the ones most likely to be overweight?
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