Opinion: Funding Twinkies
Existing farm/food bill fosters obesity and diabetes by subsidizing cheap junk food and fast food and encourages land, water and meat pollution by rewarding feedlot production of livestock and fence-row to fence-row cultivation of only a few crops. Then, its authors comfort critics with extra funds for nutrition programs and environmental cleanup.
The New York Times 2007-11-04
Categories: BUSINESS, ENVIRONMENT, FOODCHAIN, Farm/Food Bill, Farm/Food Bill, Farm/Food Bill, GOVERNMENT, OPINION, Op-Eds, POLITICS, U.S. Legislation
Index: "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto", agrochemicals, American Farm Bureau, Archer Daniels Midland, Berkeley, Byron Dorgan, California, Cargill, carrots, Chuck Grassley, Coca-Cola, Collin Peterson, commodity title, conservation, corn, cotton, Democrat, diabetes, environmental stewardship, fast food, fat, feedlots, food stamps, Frank Lautenberg, Fresh Act, grass, grasslands, high-fructose corn syrup, House Agriculture Committee, hunger lobby, hydrogenated oils, Indiana, Iowa, junk food, manure pits, McDonald's, Mexico, Minnesota, Nancy Pelosi, New Jersey, Nigeria, North Dakota, nutrition programs, obesity, pasture, ranchers, Republican, rice, Richard Lugar, Senate Agriculture Committee, soybeans, specialty crops, sugar, The Des Moines Register, The San Francisco Chronicle, Tom Harkin, Twinkies, University of California at Berkeley, waste treatment systems, water, wetlands, wheat, World Trade Organization