King of the Crop

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3445/

"In 2005, the federal government spent $9.4 billion in taxpayer money to promote corn production. The resulting cheap overproduction has driven small farmers off their lands in countries such as Mexico, because they were unable to compete with U.S. imports. This oversupply helps explain why, in 2000, U.S. residents consumed an average of 73.5 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup (up from 0.6 pounds yearly in 1970)."

Not only that, most people assume farm subsidies go to protect small, family farms, when in fact our tax dollars are going to subsidize big corporate agribusinesses such as Archer-Daniels Midland, who put small family farms out of business. Yet another example of how corporations and their interests are taking over our democratic processes and eroding the American way of life.

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