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News Release | CoPIRG | Food

Thousands Call for End to Junk Food Subsidies

Over the next week, CoPIRG will deliver thousands of petitions to members of Congress calling on them to end federal subsidies that subsidize junk food additives like high fructose corn syrup. 

News Release | CoPIRG | Food

Ag Subsidies Pay for 19 Twinkies per Taxpayer, But Only a Quarter of an Apple Apiece

Federal subsidies for commodity crops are also subsidizing junk food additives like high fructose corn syrup, enough to pay for 19 Twinkies per taxpayer every year, according to Apples to Twinkies, a new report by the state consumer advocacy group, CoPIRG.  Meanwhile, limited subsidies for fresh fruits and vegetables would buy less than a quarter of an apple per taxpayer.

News Release | CoPIRG | Budget, Food, Tax

Representative Jeff Flake Introduces REAPS Act

The introduction of the Reducing the Deficit through Eliminating Agriculture Direct Payment Subsidies Act, or REAPS Act (H.R. 2487) will cut $28 billion over ten years from agriculture subsidies.  This is a first important step away from misguided spending that benefits a narrow set of special interests rather than any rational farm policy or the broader public interest.

News Release | CoPIRG | Food

Obama Budget Proposes Important First Cuts to Ag Subsidies

Statement of CoPIRG Federal Public Health Advocate Elizabeth Hitchcock on the President’s proposed 2012 budget.

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