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Re: [Livingontheland] Billions In Farm Subsidies Underwrite Junk Food, Study Finds

From: Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>
To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Billions In Farm Subsidies Underwrite Junk Food, Study Finds
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:17:24 -0400

On 09/22/2011 01:17 PM, Tradingpost wrote:

Billions In Farm Subsidies Underwrite Junk Food, Study Finds
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/farm-subsidies-junk-food_n_975711.html#s369050&title=14_Sugar_Beets

The effects of subsidies are incredibly perverse. In the DVD "Poisoned Waters" (I highly recommend) Robert Kennedy Jr. says to the interviewer: "Show me a polluter and I'll show you a subsidy." It's really true: In the most literal sense farm subsidies underwrite some of our worst pollution problems.

~Harvey

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[Livingontheland] Billions In Farm Subsidies Underwrite Junk Food, Study Finds, Tradingpost, 09/22/2011
- Re: [Livingontheland] Billions In Farm Subsidies Underwrite Junk Food, Study Finds, Harvey Ussery, 09/23/2011