Factory Farming Contributing to Global Poverty
Journalist David Moberg rightly
exposes the truth behind farm subsidies and who really benefits from
them. He states, "Consumers…get cheap chicken, even if much of it is
contaminated with salmonella, antibiotics and other undesirable
pollutants. As the world's biggest chicken producer, the United
States is also the leading exporter of chicken…which is sold
overseas at rock-bottom prices. Those dumped exports in turn
decimate the chicken industry in many developing countries. Tally it
up. Losers: farmers, farm laborers, food processing workers, rural
communities, the environment, poor country peasants, many developing
country agricultural industries, urban laborers in both developed
and developing countries…and U.S. taxpayers. The winner: corporate
agribusiness.”
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Farmers take the heat, but big ag reaps the Farm Bill benefits