Agricultural Subsidies

House Leadership Supported Massive Giveaways to Big Ag while Taking a Chainsaw to Nutrition & Food Safety

Elizabeth Kucinich | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Congress, Food Stamps, Health Care Costs, Appropriations, Subsidies, E. Coli, Childhood Obesity, Agricultural Subsidies, Farm Bill, Hunger, Health, Food, Food Safety, Farm Subsidies, Medical Costs, Diabetes, Tea Party, Children's Health, Politics News
Elizabeth Kucinich

The last thing our country needs is a taxpayer-funded subsidy system that favors the very foods that contribute to heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. But that's exactly what key members in the House are standing behind.

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Food Fight: Why Congress and Obama's Proposed Budget Cuts Are the Wrong Move for Colorado

Sam Schabacker | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Slow Food, Food, Subsidies, Food Recalls, Food and Water Watch, Budget Cuts, Senator Bennet, Meat Inspectors, Agriculture, Fda, Agriculture-Reform, Agricultural Subsidies, Denver News
Sam Schabacker

These cuts are not solutions to our budget crises, nor will they mend our broken food system. Rather, they are ideological prescriptions that will do nothing but further enrich corporate agribusiness.

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Agricultural Policy Should Fuel Health, Not Epidemics!

Elizabeth Kucinich | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: American Heart Association, Fast Food, Congress, USDA Nutrition Programs, Type 2 Diabetes, Health Care Costs, Agriculture, USDA Policy, Subsidies, Agriculture Reform, Elizabeth Kucinich, Federal Budget, Agricultural Subsidies, Farm Bill, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 2012 Farm Bill, House Agriculture Committee, Federal Budget Deficit, Prevention, Health, Food Politics, Agriculture Subsidies, Food, Usda, Pcrm, Medical Costs, Diabetes, Farm Subsidies, Heart Disease, Diabetes Prevention, Vegetarian, Vegan, Agribusiness, Veganism, Fruit, Industrial Agriculture, Meat, House Appropriations Committee, Preventative Healthcare, Food Policy Agenda, Appropriations, Death, Doctors, Cholesterol, Healthy Diet, Diet, Healthy Eating, Unhealthy Diets, Hal Rogers, Obesity, Politics News
Elizabeth Kucinich

In 2009, USDA spent more than twice as much buying meat and dairy as it did on fruits and vegetables. What that means is that the USDA used taxpayers' money to buy about $1.5 billion worth of meat and dairy.

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Chinese Drought Could Cause Global Food Crisis

James Bacchus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Doha Development Round, World Hunger, Doha Round, Grain Trade, Agriculture, China, Agricultural Subsidies, Agricultural Trade, Drought, World Trade Organization, Food Prices, Food Trade, Wto, Export Restrictions, Export Restraints, Food Security, Food News
James Bacchus

The worst drought in sixty years is threatening the wheat crop in China, the world's largest wheat producer.

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Bittman: Fix, Don't End, Agricultural Subsidies

The New York Times | MOHAMED EL DAHSHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farm Bill, American Diet, Factory Farming, Tom Vilsack, Agribusiness, Obesity, Mark Bittman, Iowa Farm Bureau, Agricultural Subsidies, Food News

Agricultural subsidies have helped bring us high-fructose corn syrup, factory farming, fast food, a two-soda-a-day habit and its accompanying obesity,...

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Amanda Terkel

Tea Party Porkers: Secretive Anti-Bailout Group Quietly Lobbies For Government Handouts

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2010 Elections, Energy, Biofuels, Independent Expenditures, Biofuel, Renewable Energy, Ethanol Subsidies, Farm Subsidies, American Future Fund, Ethanol, 501c4, Corn Ethanol, Bruce Rastetter, Agricultural Subsidies, Elections 2010, Politics News

One of the most troubling aspects of the thriving industry of shadowy independent expenditure groups popping up in this election is the fact that the ...

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Hey Mr. President, Food Can Be Your Down Payment on Health Care Reform, Remember?

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soft Drinks, Michael Pollan, Michelle Obama, Comprehensive Healthcare Reform, Food Inc., Food, Child Nutrition Act, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Health Care, Senator Tom Harkin, Barack Obama, Agricultural Subsidies, Green News
Jerusha Klemperer

Obama has been all over the place this past week putting forth his health care plan and I haven't heard one word about how food could save this country tons of money, while saving lives.

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