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Why don't they start from the other end and eliminate farm subsidies for commodity corn that make soda and fast foods so affordable in the first place? By ending the government intervention artificially deflating these prices, we might not need government to artificially inflate them. The effects on public health and on federal coffers would ...
Posted to Human Nature by jerpeck on April 10, 2009
Corn and Ethanol
Unfortanently it does not seem like there is anything we can do about the rising of food prices. Unless the gas prices decline sometime soon which probably won't happen. As far as the rising costs of corn due to the use of ethanol, I believe there is an easy solution. The prices of corn are soaring because of lower supply than usual. Couldn't you ...
Posted to Explainer by cATpERSON on July 15, 2008