Farmer in Chief

After reading the article Farmer in Chief, I gain a better understanding of many of the food issues out their in the world. It was a pretty interesting reading because of the issues it covered. I learned how many countries would trade with each other to because some countries grew wheat and others would trade to get many types of goods. I even read on junk foods and how its effecting the people of today's society. I even got out of it that some people who live in urban areas have a hard time getting healthy foods for the family because many of the healthy foods are more expensive as to the most unhealthy food is priced at the cheapest amounts. What many people would debate what is healthy food more expensive? Health care his rise from 5 percent to 16 percent due to all problems people get from not eating healthy. Some of the problems are diseases like heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, cancer and stroke, which all come from poor diet like eating junk foods. After WWII the government started to pay farmers to grow wheat, corn, rice, and soybeans because with the fertilizer they used and the pesticide research they would do. This was also the beginning for the factory farmers because of the cheap grain many of these farmers are using in the monocultures because the factory farmers are using it to fatten the animals more faster then the normal time it would take for a farmer to fatten it. This grain is even a lot cheaper. This is making the prices go down on the protein of many meat and dairy products. The factory farmers are also make up one of the biggest pollutants in the U.S. I even learned from this reading how fossil fuel is one of the things many of us people rely on. A good point I read about was how food-stamps dibit cards should be dooble in vaule in places like farmersmarkets because many have a card known as the electronic benfit transfer card. I think this is good because it gives people the the right to afford healthy food. From reading this article I feel like I've learned a lot about food issues in today's society