I thought it was surprising how much politics play a role in the food we eat. It was shocking that junk food or fast food is purposefully made less expensive than healthy food, so people with very low incomes are forced to eat junk food because they can but more of that than healthy food for the same price. I had always thought that I ate fairly healthy but now I look at that with some scrutiny, I think I have been somewhat influenced by the big companies into buying what they want me to buy. One question I had was why was corn chosen to be the big subsidized crop of the U.S., why not some other thing? Was there a reason or did is just sort of fall that way?
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