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Old 11-03-2010, 07:36 PM   #195
mikey_the_redneck
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Another thing that bothers me a lot if the amount of subsidization involved with the 'farming' industry, especially with corn producers, and how it not only creates a huge cesspool of money basically being thrown away, but it also affects a lot of other countries who can't grow a competing crop because the US government artificially increases the value of their own 'produce.'

Even worse, nobody seems to care.
The US Department of Agriculture is so corrupted it is stupid. They operate like a business. Farming has become extremely corporatized in the last 10-15 years.

It's disgusting..
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