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We are committed to supplying our customers with quality, innovative ingredient solutions that are on trend and in demand. Headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Westchester, Illinois, we turn corn, tapioca, wheat, potatoes and other raw materials into a myriad of ingredients. With more than 11,000 employees around the world, we serve customers in more than 60 diverse markets in over 40 countries.

Through strategic acquisitions, organic growth, and innovative research and development, we are providing unique product offerings to growing markets. Our regional businesses, staffed by experts who understand the unique needs of their specific markets, are supported by a global network of engineering and ingredient development centers. Corn Subsidies: How Congress is shortchanging our health | Static.

At dinner Sunday night, I asked my friend Prasad if he knew about the new farm bill and what it means for average Americans. He didn’t. I wasn’t surprised. With the election, the war, and rising prices to fret about, not many people are pondering legislation about farms. But they should, because it has huge implications for the country’s nutrition, environment, and health. Here are three reasons why we all should pay closer attention to the 2007 farm bill: food, fuel, and fat. First, some background. The farm bill, which is renewed every five or six years, is a vast set of laws and policies that governs how our food is produced and priced.

The first farm bill, passed during the Depression, established price supports to protect farmers and rural communities. Let’s look at how one particular crop has helped change American life and how retooling government supports for it could be a boon for all Americans. The problem with corn: How the fat of the land is helping make us fatter Why? Farmers Split Over Subsidies As Senate Farm Bill Debate Begins : The Salt. Hide captionLarry Sailer on his corn and soybean farm, just north of Iowa Falls, Iowa. Jonathan Ahl/for NPR Larry Sailer on his corn and soybean farm, just north of Iowa Falls, Iowa. The latest proposal for the farm bill — the law governing everything from food stamps to rural development grants — is being considered by the U.S. Senate this week. It's designed to save more than $23 billion over the next 10 years, in part by getting rid of direct payments to farmers. The direct payment program alone costs taxpayers $5 billion per year.

The Senate is proposing to replace it with crop insurance and revenue protections in case of falling prices. First, let's review: Direct payments are basically money the government pays farmers, as we've reported before. Larry Sailer is a pretty typical Iowa farmer who gets direct payments. But Sailer and his fellow corn and bean farmers still have some worries. Sailer says the lack of rain in Iowa is also a concern. Do Corn and Beans Still Need Help? Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/fvwretail.pdf. STUDY: Farm Bill Contributing To America's Obesity Crisis. By Zack Beauchamp "STUDY: Farm Bill Contributing To America’s Obesity Crisis" While Congress struggles to push a Farm Bill through before the critical legislation expires, a new report by the California Public Interest Group (CALPIRG) highlights an underdiscussed problem with the way the law has been structured in the past: it’s making us unhealthy.

CALPIRG researchers found that the crop subsidies in the Farm Bill overwhelmingly went to ingredients that fuel the junk food industry rather than fresh fruits and vegetables. As a result, the subsidies artificially driving down prices for the very foodstuffs fueling the nation’s obesity crisis: Between 1995 and 2011, $18.2 billion in tax dollars subsidized four common junk food additives—corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, corn starch, and soy oils (which are processed further into hydrogenated vegetable oils).Healthier agricultural products receive very little in federal subsidies.

Legislative Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic. Buy & download fulltext article: Abstract: Legislative bodies in the United States have often passed laws to regulate food in its production, content, and sale. Additionally, legislatures have created economic policies that directly affect the food supply and determine both the type and quantity of food available.

Legislatively-enacted federal programs, such as the National School Lunch Program, also provide opportunities to promote good nutrition. These traditional areas of legislation represent the most efficient means to affect the food environment legislatively. While exploring legislative solutions to obesity, it is also imperative to monitor attempts by the legislature to constrain other public health strategies by limiting private enforcement and limiting the regulatory freedom of traditional public health authorities.Journal of Public Health Policy (2004) 25, 379–390. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190037. US Labor Day soda prices up from last year-report. Welchs Fruit Snacks 18 Bags: Amazon.com: Grocery & Gourmet Food.