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The WaPo Keeps Fighting on Food Aid
Simon Lester A few weeks ago, I blogged about how the U.S. government uses the idea of helping malnourished people abroad as a way to promote domestic agricultural interests. As I explained there,...
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Should Murderers and Rapists Get Food Stamps?
Tad DeHaven Last week, the Senate accepted by unanimous consent an amendment to the pending farm bill that would ban convicted murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from receiving Supplemental Nutrition...
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Food Stamps and the House Farm Bill
Tad DeHaven Debate on the House Agriculture Committee’s version of the next farm bill will begin in the Republican-controlled chamber in June. One of the most contentious issues will be spending on the...
View ArticleAgriculture • If you knowingly eat food from China you are just stupid
BOYCOTT SMITHFIELD HAM !!! Posted on 2nd June 2013 by Stucky in Economyboycott, Smithfield I’m not going to mince words. If you knowingly eat food from China you are just plain fucking stupid. China is...
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Food Aid Reform in the Farm Bill
Simon Lester A number of my Cato colleagues have offered good criticisms of developments related to the latest farm bill here, here, here, here, here, and here. (That’s a lot of “heres,” but farm...
View ArticleAgriculture • Locust Plague Threatens to Trigger Severe Food Crisis in Ma
Locust Plague Threatens to Trigger Severe Food Crisis in Madagascar28 June 2013MADAGASCAR – Locusts have already infested over half of the island nation’s cultivated land and pastures Locusts swarms...
View ArticleThe Great Food Stamp Binge
According to a poll commissioned by Fox News, 74% of Americans think Americans rely too much on government programs for assistance, such as food stamps, and not enough on themselves. And speaking of...
View ArticleAgriculture • Up Against Hard Limits: Food and Finance
Up Against Hard Limits: Food and FinanceAugust 24, 2013 We are reaching hard limits in food production and financial engineering. In the first 25 years after World War II (1946-1970), an abundance of...
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It’s China vs. China, (Crony vs.Crony) in Genetically Modified Food Fight
I am no geneticist (just in case you were wondering) and I long did not care particularly about the GMO issue. But I will say that I have come to believe that the GMO skeptics are worth listening to....
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The Future of U.S.-China Economic Relations: Lots of Food Fights
Simon Lester Just as a U.S. government agency is about to decide whether a Chinese company can buy a U.S. pork producer, concerns are being raised about foods shipped directly from China. Here is...
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