[neverdem]

Farm subsidies for carbohydrates with almost pandemic obesity is utter madness, IMHO.

Carbohydrate restriction improves the features of Metabolic Syndrome. Metabolic Syndrome may be defined by the response to carbohydrate restriction

It's too bad that link is Greek to most people.

[Paladin2]

Gives a whole new meaning to having Congress pass pork. ;-)

[Will88]

“Family farmers — now less than 1 percent of the population — disappeared as the farm subsidy industry grew. Indeed the wealthiest corporations now receive the most federal largess.”

And as more and more family farms are replaced by giant corporate farms, just where do these corporate farms get the needed labor? Are they offering attractive and competitive pay in the areas where they locate so as to recruit citizens with farm experience? I doubt it. I just wonder how much of the labor once done by farm family members is now done by illegal aliens?

The trend to corporate farms is nothing to celebrate, and ALL subsidies to these types of businesses should be ended.