There's a lot of it, and it's inexpensive compared to healthier foods like vegetables, for which few subsidies are offered. (articles.mercola.com)
Highly open to free trade, relatively few subsidies to businesses, but a high social safety net ensuring that economic efficiency doesn't mean poverty for those caught on the wrong side of technological and social change. (nextleft.org)
While subsidies have likely increased domestic production, they've also diverted capital from more productive activities (such as energy efficiency) and constrained the growth of renewable energy (solar and wind enjoy fewer subsidies and, generally, receive much less preferential political treatment). (ucsusa.org)