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 Stories About: ag policy AND ag subsidies AND agriculture AND food AND health AND legislation
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The corn identity
How Congress is shortchanging our health and sweetening things for the food industry |
Bill Chameides |
24 Apr 2008 |
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| Are we becoming children of the corn, thanks in part to large subsidies and overproduction? Photo: NREL/Warren Gretz At dinner Sunday night, I asked my friend Prasad if he knew about the new farm bill and what it means for average Americans. He didn't. I wasn't surprised. With the election, the war, and rising prices to fret about, not many people are pondering legislation about farms. But they should, because it has huge implications for the country's n ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, food, health, legislation (all these topics) |
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