Stop Subsidizing Obesity OUR TAX DOLLARS HELP FUEL OBESITY
EPIDEMIC—Since 1995, $18 billion has been given away in
subsidies to Big Agribusinesses, this money gets used to produce
common junk food ingredients, like high-fructose corn syrup.
These giveaways are all the more absurd at a time when one-in-
three kids is overweight or obese. PUT JUNK FOOD SUBSIDIES ON A
DIET Almost anything you can think of would be a better use of
our tax dollars than subsidizing the ingredients in junk food,
but every year more than a billion taxpayer dollars do just
that. Huge, profitable corporations, like Cargill and Monsanto,
have pocketed $18 billion in the last 16 years and turned
subsidized crops into junk food ingredients — including high
fructose corn syrup. These taxpayer giveaways are all the more
absurd at a time when one-in-three kids is overweight or obese,
and obesity-related diseases like diabetes are turning into an
epidemic. Many of these wasteful subsidies are set to expire
this year, but industry lobbyists are