US Farm Subsidies and Obesity

摘要: The idea that farm subsidies contribute significantly to obesity and reducing these would go a long way toward solving the problem has been popular among mainstream media in policy circles. However, economists who have evaluated issue consistently found had negligible impacts on US patterns. If anything, income support policies, including various price supports, made fattening food more expensive reduced obesity. New evidence from our updated economic simulation model reinforces view conclusion reformulation of be ineffective even counterproductive as fighting