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RiverLover

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3. Its pretty bad what we've allowed the majority of farmland to become.

Reply to yellowwoodII (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 09:13 AM

Dec 2014

And the corn & soy surplus gets sold to foreign countries. And the govt SUBSIDIZES this, rather than subsidizing healthy vegetables & fruits. Most people don't know that vegetables other than corn & soy account for around 5% of crops grown in the US and are designated as "specialty crops."

No wonder the US is fat.

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