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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Attack of the killer corn Why the heavily subsidized corn harvest amounts to an annual environmental calamity	Tom Philpott	22 Feb 2006	Gristmill
While researching my Poverty & the Environment piece on the food system, I had occasion to look closely at the corn harvest, source of so much of our cheap food. As bad as the annual flood of cheap corn is for our health -- nutritionally worthless high-fructose corn syrup, cheap feed for confined animals pumped full of antibiotics and hormones -- it may be even worse for the environment.Bolstered by government subsidies that have averaged about $4 billion annually ...
Topics: ag subsidies, agriculture, food (all these topics)

Mad cash cow: Will the U.S. slaughter agriculture subsidies? Why the Bush Administration looks set to jettison the farm-subsidy program, beloved of industry and	Tom Philpott	11 Oct 2005	Gristmill
Long the bane of environmentalists and sustainable-agriculture proponents, the U.S. agriculture-subsidy system has drawn some unlikely new critics: top Bush administration officials. Speaking before a food-industry trade group last week, USDA chief Mike Johanns, the reliably pro-Big Ag former governer of subsidy-rich Nebraska, complained that in fiscal year 2005: 92 percent of commodity program spending was paid on five crops -- corn, wheat, soybeans, cotton and rice ...
Topics: ag subsidies, agriculture, food, politics (all these topics)

Vegging Out Advice on antioxidant-rich foods and why they cost so much	Umbra Fisk	21 Jun 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Antioxidant foods are "the thing" right now, and I would love to be able to eat as many as I need. However, they are usually the most expensive fruits and vegetables. Would it not make sense for farmers or producers to grow these products in greater volume, so we could all afford them and be able to eat healthier more easily? How difficult would such an adjustment in crops be fo ...
Topics: advice, ag subsidies, Ask Umbra, business, food and agriculture, health, industrial ag (all these topics)

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