Petro-agribusiness is a racket. The US subsidizes cheap, unhealthy crops like cow corn to manufacture HFCS. Without subsidies, cane sugar would likely be chea

Petro-agribusiness is a racket. The US subsidizes cheap, unhealthy crops like cow corn to manufacture HFCS. Without subsidies, cane sugar would likely be cheaper than HFCS or beet sugar. And that Walmart can grossly underpay its employees so much that they need social benefits to survive is another indirect, but pervasive and perverse, transfer of wealth from the lower and middle to the wealthy owners of corporations.