Sentences with phrase «corn and wheat subsidies»

For different reasons, sugar subsidies, ethanol subsidies, corn and wheat subsidies, really just about any farm subsidies that aren't based on preventing soil erosion.

Not exact matches

«It's only products that have wheat and corn in them in the supermarket that get any subsidies,» said Dooley, a farm owner and longtime member of the House Agriculture Committee.

The United States government in its wisdom chose to give agricultural subsidies to wheat, corn, and soybeans, thus reducing the price of the most toxic food crops.

As highlighted in the documentary Food Inc., the amount of money that goes toward the overproduction of corn, soy and other subsidies like wheat could be diverted to the production of fruits, vegetables and grass - fed livestock, providing that budget redistribution and subsequent actions were handled carefully.

I am frustrated by any subsidy that supports over-used, overly - processed foods (wheat, corn, soy and cotton mainly) while ignoring the foods people need to eat to be HEALTHY — vegetables and fruit!

Corn is our most lavishly subsidized food crop, by a wide margin; it drew more in subsidies over that period than wheat ($ 22 billion), soybeans ($ 14 billion), and rice ($ 11 billion)-- combined.

In contrast, the producers of corn, soybeans, wheat and cotton continue to get $ 20 billion or so a year in farm subsidies.