How are crops chosen to receive subsidies?
What will be an ideal response?
Every five years the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act is subject to a vote. Also known as the “U.S. Farm Bill,” the five-year agriculture policy bill includes provisions for government subsidies on various crops. By heavily subsidizing certain crops, the U.S. government is effectively voting on which food products will be pushed onto consumers. Feed grains received a $1.78 billion subsidy in 2012 and a budgeted $2.29 billion subsidy for 2014 according to the fiscal year 2014 Budget Summary and Annual Performance Plan, reducing the price of meat production. That same year, wheat, rice, tobacco, dairy, soybeans, sugar, and others were also heavily subsidized, at a total of $3.6 billion, and $4.25 billion was budgeted for 2014.
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