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by robertcorey 3317 days ago
We could just stop our _massive_ subsidies for these industries instead of taxing them.
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Came here to say the same thing, it's absolutely INSANE how much we subsidize, for example, corn. So it's no wonder there's plentiful cheap corn being stuffed into processed foods (incidentally also increasing the amount of processed food) and overwhelmingly what our cattle are fed with.