farm bill

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/magazine/22wwlnlede.t.html?em&ex=1177819200&en=012aaa4af05f033c&ei=5087%0A

"A public-health researcher from Mars might
legitimately wonder why a nation faced with what its
surgeon general has called "an epidemic" of obesity
would at the same time be in the business of
subsidizing the production of high-fructose corn
syrup. But such is the perversity of the farm bill:
the nation's agricultural policies operate at
cross-purposes with its public-health objectives. "