"It's also a horrible deal. It redistributes our taxes to millionaire farmers and millionaire "farmers" like David Letterman, David Rockefeller, and the owners of the Utah Jazz. It contributes to our obesity and illegal-immigration epidemics and to our water and energy shortages. It helps degrade rivers, deplete aquifers, eliminate grasslands, concentrate food-processing conglomerates and inundate out fast-food nation with high-fructose corn syrup. Our farm policy is supposed to save small farmers and small towns, instead it fuels the expansion of industrial megafarms and the depopulation of rural America. It hurts Third World farmers, violates international trade deals and paralyzes our efforts to open foreign markets to the non-agricultural goods and services that make up the remaining 99% of our economy."
-Time Magazine "Down on The Farm" Nov. 12
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