News & Articles By Daniel Barker
03/12/2017
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By Daniel Barker
America’s sugar industry has been on “welfare” for far too long
The effects of sugar subsidies on the American economy are anything but sweet – sugar tariffs and quotas cost the United States more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs while consumers pay higher prices at the supermarket checkout counter. In fact, sugar subsidy programs force American consumers to pay an extra $2.4 billion per year to finance […]
03/05/2017
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By Daniel Barker
EPA and FDA give go ahead for 3 types of GMO potatoes… planting begins this year
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have given permission to Idaho-based agribusiness giant J.R. Simplot Co. to begin the spring planting and fall harvesting of three different types of genetically modified potatoes. Simplot says that the varieties are genetically engineered to resist the pathogen associated with late blight, the […]
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