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Billions of our tax-dollars are given to Agribusiness, the huge corporations that dominate our food supply.  Very few, if any, tax dollars are given to the farmers we see at the Green Markets all around NYC.  They are the ones who deserve our support. If we are to save them, our land and our health, we must become more informed about how our taxes are spent.

The Farm Bill produces a food system awash in added sugars (derived from corn) and added fats.  The reason the least healthful calories in the supermarket are the cheapest is that those are the ones that the farm bill encourages farmers to grow (by giving them our tax dollars to produce them).

Join us to hear Mark Dunlea, Executive Director of Hunger Action Network NY State, to discuss the ways we can get the Congress to change this urgent bill.

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