Food

This is a great article (op-ed, of course) in the NYT about the farm bills that subsidize farmers in the US. I always knew that these bills were outdated and made the rich richer, but I didn't know much about them. I like this author's slant that we are subsidizing high fructose corn syrup in a country laden with cases of diabetes and obesity. Basically, we are subsidizing the terrible way Americans eat, and with reform of the farm bill, we can change the way we eat. Change to a system in which we eat what are now "specialty" crops, such as carrots and green beans. The point is that high fructose corn syrup (the corn that produces it) is a staple of our diet, and other veggies are specialty foods, which is a twisted view of any kind of diet. Just another reason our politics are f***ed.