The real cost of our rigged farm system isn't just the 10 billion in subsidies or the sky high prices for food, it's the fact that artificially high demand for food (biofuels, natch) drives up global commodity prices meaning the poorest of the poor can't afford to feed their family. And experts estimate that last year this caused the death of 135,000. Farmers: stone cold killers. No, make that rich stone cold killers.
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