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...purchases of surplus crops for school lunches or foreign aid, and "supply controls" that boost crop prices by preventing overproduction. Such controls range from rules requiring farmers to leave some land fallow to acreage allotments directing them as to what and how much to plant. "If you can't feed and clothe yourself, your nation's at risk," says Arkansas Congressman and rice farmer Marion Berry. "Farming is a dadgum hard life, and we need folks to keep doing...
...example, health advocates ask why the most fattening calories on our grocery shelves are the most subsidized. During an unprecedented obesity epidemic, why not support fruits and vegetables instead of cattle and poultry feed? Similarly, green groups would shift funding from subsidies for the grain-industrial complex to conservation payments for eco-sensitive farmers of any size. The results would be less erosion; more restoration of grasslands and wetlands; and less degradation of water bodies like the Chesapeake Bay, the Everglades, the Colorado River and the Gulf of Mexico, where farm nutrients have created...
Another unintended consequence: we don't make West African cotton farmers poor, but our subsidies encourage overproduction that slightly reduces world cotton prices, making millions of them slightly poorer. An Oxfam study found that eliminating our subsidies could boost their average income as much as 5.7%, enough to feed two of their kids for a year. We spent $3.3 billion on cotton subsidies in 2005, more than half of Mali's gross domestic product. "We're not judging you--if we could subsidize our farmers, we'd do it!" says Abdoulaye Diop, Mali's ambassador...
...that movie. This is not what consent looks like. Or take a more familiar example – a young girl who is sexually assaulted by her (take your pick: father, uncle, brother, stepfather, etc) runs away from home to avoid further abuse and turns to prostitution to feed herself (and perhaps her children), because it is the best job she can get. Did she consent? Does it matter that her options are so limited? As MacKinnon pointed out, social science has documented that the vast majority of prostitutes suffered sexual abuse in childhood or adolescence, and are also desperately...
...Feed wet food. You can add a little pat of butter on top, so that the hairball goes out the other end instead of coming up regurgitated...