House Committee Approves Cut to Agriculture Subsidies
For Immediate Release Wednesday, June 1, 2011 Every year, billions of taxpayer dollars are directed toward agribusiness -- artificially driving down the cost of fats and sugars by subsidizing...
View ArticleRepresentative Jeff Flake Introduces REAPS Act
For Immediate Release Wednesday, July 13, 2011 "Whether subsidizing landowners that don't farm or the over-production of crops that help fuel a growing obesity epidemic, it's time Congress stopped...
View ArticleNew Mexico In Focus: Farm Subsidies
NMPIRG Education Fund Stop Subsidizing Obesity KNME Friday, October 14, 2011 Matt Grubbs Host Gene Grant sits down with New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau President Mike White to talk about farm...
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Apples to Twinkies 2012
Released by: NM PIRG Education Fund Release date: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 Ag Subsidies Pay for 21 Twinkies per Taxpayer, But Only Half of an Apple Apiece Apples to Twinkies vNM-.pdf Executive Summary...
View ArticleAg Subsidies Pay for 21 Twinkies per Taxpayer, But Only Half of an Apple Apiece
For Immediate Release Wednesday, July 25, 2012 Laura Etherton Albuquerque, NM — Federal subsidies for commodity crops are subsidizing junk food additives like high fructose corn syrup, enough to pay...
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