Charity isn’t Always Good
We have too much corn, all of it subsidized by our tax dollars, which pay not only to grow it but to store it. This is why you’re hearing so much about ethanol (which is made from corn) lately. The government is desperate to find a way to get rid of some of this, and one way it does this is by selling it at low prices it to poor countries, especially in Africa. But critics of this seemingly charitable act say that these imports actually lead to disease and even starvation.
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