[Beetle01]

So after all of these posts very little has been discussed as to why corn, wheat, and soybean are subsidized in this country. The first thing I am going to tell you is it is not to increase the profits of the farmers.

It is so the huge and powerful handful of food companies in this country/world can buy the corn at less than cost. They are even feeding it to the cattle now, which has brought about the new strain of e-coli which has caused dozens of deaths in the USA.

Corporate greed has gotten out of control, they willingly put Americans and people around the world at risk for profit. It happens more and more.

Corn is so cheap in America, it has put 2.5 million Mexican farmers out of jobs due to NAFTA. Its cheaper to ship corn from America to Mexico, than it is to grow it there. That should never happen.

So now these food companies hire these illegals for cheap wages, putting them in unsafe working conditions, and use the threats to keep them quiet about what they do to our food.