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Tlaib Introduces Bill to Stop Price Gouging in Grocery Stores
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They should also pass a bill to exempt imported food and food manufacturers from tariffs. It's one thing to say we need to incur higher prices to encourage American investment but leave the fucking food supply out of it.
The US also needs to fix its corn subsidy problem. So many farmers grow exclusively corn because the subsidies just make it impossible not to, and most of that just gets turned into ethanol.
If the government were to cut off corn subsidies, or just start subsidizing better food options, a lot of the food scarcity and price problems faced by Americans could be solved.
But that would make gas more expensive, so obviously that takes priority...
While only ~10% of corn is human food (including corn syrup), the rest is about evenly split between ethanol production and animal feed (~45% each). https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn-and-other-feed-grains/feed-grains-sector-at-a-glance
I mean, ethanol for fuel isn't great, and it represents most of the new corn consumption over the last 20 years, but an enormous amount of US corn goes to pigs and cattle.