>All this would be bad enough if the government weren't doing its best to make matters even worse, by recklessly encouraging farmers to produce even more unneeded food. Absurdly, while one hand of the federal government is campaigning against the epidemic of obesity, the other hand is actually subsidizing it, by writing farmers a check for every bushel of corn they can grow. <
I don't think it's the supply (or price) of food _per se_ that's behind the US plague of obesity. Rather, I think it's the supply of _fatty_ or fat-encouraging foods and the lack of exercise that people get. And to what extent is the government really campaigning against obesity? Jim
