I dunno if anyone has heard about the raging food crisis that's going on around the world, I realize it's easy to plug yourself into the tv after work and not get any non-entertainment information. So, if you haven't heard, there's a global food crisis. Food is at its lowest level in 30 years and combined with the financial slump in the US right now, it's a pretty big deal, even for Americans.
With that in mind, doesn't it seem really weird that our government provides subsidies to farmers who are willing to divert the food they grow from the grocery store and put it in people's gas tanks? I mean, do we really want to put food in our gas tanks? The world population is growing by leaps and bounds, therefore, the need for food is growing by leaps in bounds. It would probably do our country (and the world) some good to take the food out of people's Hummers and put it on people's tables. That makes sense right?
So why does our government pay farmers to turn food into fuel?
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- nicole
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1 comment:
The short answer: Iowa is a swing state. They also happen to have a LOT of corn.
Also, don't forget about those farm subsidies where farmers are paid not to plant anything at all in order to artificially inflate the crop prices. That's exactly what the world needs when grain costs more than it ever has.
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