If The White House Garden Grew Subsidized Crops
This is a great visualization using the White House Kitchen garden to look at what farm products are subsidized by the government. Who in their right mind would plan on the subsidized garden as a reasonable diet for anyone?
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In a saner world, we’s subsidize the folks providing fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs rather than the industrial commodities of corn, wheat, cotton (which you can’t eat!), soybeans or peanuts.
This was created by the folks over at Kitchen Gardeners — a great spot to learn about how to grow your own food sustainably.
What are you growing in your garden this year?
More entitlements. I wonder why this travesty is never mentioned on the list of things that we can’t afford?
As for me, after a sad crop of tomatoes last year, our veggie plot is fallow. I’m concentrating on bringing back a bed of black-eyed susans and a few other perennials this year.
Growing a couple of large pots of herbs but waiting eagerly for the farm stand at Carousel Park to open. Yum.
Big agriculture subsidies: It’s just more corporate pork… just like the pork for the oil industry (depletion allowances,…)
There are MANY companies with their hands in the till. They mostly got there with “honest” donations to politicians (mostly the GOP, but Dems too). Some have blood on their hands (“We need this war to sell our expensive product to you”).
Any honest attempt to reign in the budget needs to put ALL corporate pork on the table. There’s much to be saved in doing just that!
How about the military industrial complex? Do we really need 750 military bases around the world? Do we need to have embassy (palaces) in third world countries and staffed to the hilt? Everybody better some food stocking or get a garden together. China is having the worst drought ever in the middle of their agriculture belt. Russia’s wheat and corn crops are destroyed. Our own bread basket is under water? California has droughts, so exactly where is all this food coming from to sustain us? Having Verizon and being able to watch Chinese TV in English is amazing. There is more international news than on all the US corporate owned networks combined. All these countries are furious with the US for pushing Monsanto chemical products. If they refuse to use them they are threatened with boycotts of the products they sell. I keep wondering who the hell is making these decisions for our government? We certainly arent winning friends or influencing anyone.