While the Farm Bill ostensibly aims to serve consumer interests, the federal government’s left hand aggressively deprioritizes the public health interests promoted by its right. Instead, regardless of its initial intent, the Farm Bill functionally lines the pockets of companies like Frito Lay, Coca-Cola, and other corporate food purveyors. The majority of those same corporations rely on low-wage labor, which means that often their workers are also their consumers. As it happens, over the last fifty years, Americans’ food intake has continued to drift further from the PHS’s nutrition
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