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July 16, 2007 News

The farm bill, in which every five years Congress pays billions to subsidize the most unhealthy foods and give them an advantage over healthy foods, is getting a lot more attention this year. "We have adopted this high-calorie, low nutrition diet," said Daniel Imhoff, author of "Food Fight: A Citizen's Guide to the Food and Farm Bill." "Maybe advertising is part of it. Maybe TV is part of it. Maybe it's our sedentary lifestyle. But you can't ignore that these subsidies make cheap the ingredients for the refined and processed food industry." One of many interesting tidbits about all this -- The farm bill gives more money to landowners who aren't farming their land than it does to farmers growing foods to be sold as fresh fruits and vegetables.


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