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)
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