Imagine if we had to live only on the foods that our government subsidizes for the crops from the Food and Farm Bill? The “subsidy garden” reflects the $11 billion per year spent on BIG AG. The subsidy garden consists of: corn wheat rice cotton soybeans tobacco sorghum canola sunflower Which would you prefer for [...]
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Dr. Phil Howard, an Assistant Professor at Michigan State, is responsible for the creation and updating of the organic food business chart. He teaches in the University’s Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies program. The latest update of major corporate ownership and involvement in the organic food sector is now out. The chart graphically focuses [...]
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