June 26, 2012

How The Crop Insurance Industry Helped Buy A Multi-Billion Dollar Cut To Food Stamps

Late last week we reported how the U.S. Senate voted to sustain cuts worth billions of dollars from the food stamp program in the name of fiscal austerity while maintaining billions of dollars of subsidies and other price supports for the Sugar Lobby. Let’s look even deeper into the original 33-66 failed vote to restore
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May 15, 2012

This Is Why You’re Fat: The 2012 Farm Bill And The Real Obesity Lobby

This Is Why You're Fat: The 2012 Farm Bill And The Real Obesity Lobby

Nearly half of all Americans will be obese by 2030, researchers reported at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Weight of the Nation conference in Washington earlier this month. 42 percent of us are projected to be obese, placing a huge strain on our already compromised health care system. Brian Fung at The Atlantic points
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