Video: Taxpayer Subsidies for Unhealthy Foods

What if billions in tax dollars were invested in healthier options rather than given to corporations to subsidize the very foods that are making us sick?

Professor of Nutrition Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina writes:

“For more than a century, Western governments have invested heavily in lowering the costs of animal products and some basic cash crops [such as sugar]. Accordingly, Western diets have shifted during the past century, especially after World War II, to include more animal sourced foods—meat, poultry, dairy, seafood, and eggs [as well as more sugar and corn syrup]. During this same period, however, we have begun to realize that a healthy diet actually requires fewer animal products and empty calories, and more vegetables, fruits, beans, and whole grains. Redressing this balance is a complex task requiring not only a shift in agricultural investment and policy, but also changes in social preferences that have developed over decades, in part due to dollar menu meat.”

Frozen pink sludge — your tax money subsidized this commodity which is turned into hamburgers in fast food restaurants.