Sweet Land of Subsidy

The Cato@Liberty blog today bemoans something it has decided is a meaningful milestone: that the federal government last week added its 2,000 th subsidy program (and then its 2,001 st ). There is one such program “for every year that has passed since Emperor Augustus held sway in Rome,” writes blogger Chris Edwards. “We’ve gone from bread and circuses to food stamps, the National Endowment for the Arts, and 1,999 other hand-out programs from the imperial city on the Potomac.” He continues the Roman theme and the bluster, concluding that the “recent election results indicate that Americans may be starting to wake up and fight back. Whether we are more successful than Cicero and Cato the Younger in battling to retain our limited-government republic remains to be seen.” After I…
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jonvwest (Jon West) : NPR covers the upcoming joint DOJ/USDA public workshops on Monsanto and anti-trust issues in agribusiness: http://bit.ly/cruFWw.. Updated : 2010-03-12T13:35:41Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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antara_en (Antara dot co dot id) : Indonesia lagging behind in agribusiness development: Indonesia is lagging far behind other Asian countries in ag... http://bit.ly/af1933.. Updated : 2010-03-12T07:37:52Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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Fikri_noor (Fikri Izzudin Noor) : RT @antaranews: Indonesia lagging behind in agribusiness development http://antaranews.com/en/news/1268377951.. Updated : 2010-03-12T07:14:48Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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Down on the Factory Farm [vid]
[General Sciences]Jonathan Safran Foer rails against agribusiness and marketing ploys.
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Agribusiness Chief Declares Organic Food Bad for Planet
[Food & Drink]When Michael Mack, the chief executive of Syngenta, a Swiss agribusiness giant that makes pesticides and seeds, hears people say that organic food is better for the planet, he has one response: "Au contraire." According to Mac, “Organic food is not only not better for the planet, It is categorically worse.”...
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Damon turns corporate whistleblower in dark comedy
[Movies]Matt Damon stars as a whistleblower at a big U.S. agri-business company in ''The Informant!,'' a black comedy based on a true story which had the audience laughing out loud at the Venice film festival. Damon had to put on 30 pounds, wear a mustache and look unusually unglamorous to play Mark Whitacre.
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Why Dole Food is crying 'rotten' about the doc 'Bananas!'
[Food & Drink]In the eyes of Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten, his documentary 'Bananas!' is a balanced, nuanced depiction of a trial pitting Nicaraguan banana plantation workers and an L.A. attorney against a powerful multinational agribusiness. However, Dole Food Co. has threatened defamation if the doc about pesticide lawsuits plays at film festivals.
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Jon Stewart's Best Comedian Interviews
[Comedy]When Jon Stewart can make an interview about the deleterious effects of agribusiness hilarious, you'd almost think he wouldn't even bother interviewing actual comedians. But unlike Shaq's biological, Jon Stewart does bother, as evidenced by the clips in this collection of great comedian moments in Daily Show history.






























