On Fri, 3 May 2002 11:16:33 -0400, Marianne Fuller <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>Belive me, American grain producers are selling as many grain products as >>they can and constantly inventing new ways to market their products to >>humans. They even profit from aid programs that foster dependency on them >>and the totalitarian regimes that depend on them ) at the expense of native >>food producers ( often prolonging famines while proping-up American grain >>prices ). > >With all due respect, I hope there won't be anti-American diatribe on this >mailing list. I've had about all of that I can take Maybe just watch Fox News Channel :-) But it is a fact these (non-paleo crops) are the ones that get almost all the government subsidies. "The ratio of subsidies to value is highest in the states that grow primarily program crops* and that have relatively small livestock sectors." * tobacco, barley, corn, wheat, cotton, oats, rice, and grain sorghum The Concentration of U.S. Agricultural Subsidies http://www.card.iastate.edu/iowa_ag_review/fall_01/concentration.html Philip Thrift http://www.geocities.com/PaleoFitness