eatraw:

haygirlhay:

mothernaturenetwork:

If the USDA says that vegetables and fruits should make up half of our diets, why does less than 1 percent of its food subsidies go to farmers who grow produce?

This. I need a portable soapbox I talk about this so much. 

THIS! 

Indeed. I’m not sure I support farm subsidies, but if we have them, shouldn’t they go towards healthy foods? Choice quote from the article:

the problem is that fruits and vegetables compete with artificially priced junk food in the marketplace. Lucky Charms and Trix are so cheap because they are made with crop subsidies; meat is cheap because cows are fed government-subsidized crops, and so on and so forth. Is My Plate suddenly going to make a pound of vegetables cost less, and a box of Lucky Charms cost more?  Will My Plate turn food deserts into areas where residents can have access to healthy foods? No.

(via weeatplants)