September 2011
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Taxpayers Subsidizing Junk Food? →
natalia-saves-the-world:
“From 1995 to 2010, the government handed $16.9 billion in farm subsidies to people involved in making four common junk food ingredients: corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, corn starch, and soy oils. Over the same time period, $262 million went to subsidizing apples. ”
“CALPIRG did some math: “If these agricultural subsidies went directly to consumers to allow them...
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Obama asks for stay of execution in Texas →
blackacrylic:
For all you clowns who justified Obama’s silence over the execution of Troy Davis:
President Obama is asking the Supreme Court to stay tomorrow’s planned execution of a Mexican citizen in Texas, arguing it could do “irreparable harm” to U.S. interests abroad.
In 1994, Humberto Leal Garcia Jr. was convicted of rape and murder and sentenced to death. Few are contesting his...
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