Big government = bigger waistlines
What one hand tries to control, the other stimulates:
"The food industry received from 1995 to 2005 more than $5 billion in federal subsidies annually. The breakdown is this: 73.8 percent of the subsidies go to the meat and dairy industry, 13.2 percent are to grains, 10.7 percent to starch, sugar, oil and alcohol, nuts, fruits and vegetables make up a whopping 2.2 percent. Between subsidies and the technological and pharmaceutical developments over the last several decades, the process of producing meats, eggs, starch, sugar and corn based products such as high-fructose corn syrup have been made cheaper, and as a consequence food is unhealthier.
Bad food has now become cheap, super-sized, pharmaceutically enhanced, and terrible for your body. Cheap beef made from factory farming that receive the benefits of federal subsidies as well as brilliant marketing campaigns is partly the reason the fast food industry grew from $6 in 1970 to $110 billion in 2000. As comedian George Carlin once said, 'Americans are fatally attracted to the slow death by fast food.'"
Read the rest at The American Spectator.
"The food industry received from 1995 to 2005 more than $5 billion in federal subsidies annually. The breakdown is this: 73.8 percent of the subsidies go to the meat and dairy industry, 13.2 percent are to grains, 10.7 percent to starch, sugar, oil and alcohol, nuts, fruits and vegetables make up a whopping 2.2 percent. Between subsidies and the technological and pharmaceutical developments over the last several decades, the process of producing meats, eggs, starch, sugar and corn based products such as high-fructose corn syrup have been made cheaper, and as a consequence food is unhealthier.
Bad food has now become cheap, super-sized, pharmaceutically enhanced, and terrible for your body. Cheap beef made from factory farming that receive the benefits of federal subsidies as well as brilliant marketing campaigns is partly the reason the fast food industry grew from $6 in 1970 to $110 billion in 2000. As comedian George Carlin once said, 'Americans are fatally attracted to the slow death by fast food.'"
Read the rest at The American Spectator.
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