The Farm Bill as Government Subsidized Obesity

Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, writes in the New York Times Magazine:

A public-health researcher from Mars might legitimately wonder why a nation faced with what its surgeon general has called “an epidemic” of obesity would at the same time be in the business of subsidizing the production of high-fructose corn syrup. But such is the perversity of the farm bill: the nation’s agricultural policies operate at cross-purposes with its public-health objectives.

Read the rest: "You Are What You Grow" (h/t: Will Samson)