Annotated Bibliography #2

Porter, Doug. "How the Government Encourages Obesity: The High Fructose Corn Syrup Story." 13 Jan. 2009. Web.

This article helps people understand a little bit more about corn subsidizing. It explains some background information and then goes on explaining the problem with corn now, which is how it helps us get fatter. It also explains how the rush to corn is also causing an environmental toll and also gives reasons why people should be informed about corn subsidies.



Chameides, Bill. "Corn Subsidies: How Congress Is Shortchanging Our Health.” 28 Apr. 2008. Web.

This article talks about how the government encourages obesity by subsidizing corn. How they use Ads on TV and spend more than 20 million dollars and sometimes more to send us a “safe message” about corn syrup. Also, how the corn syrup industry has always vigorously defended its territory for obvious reasons but how a few brave scientists noticed what seemed to be a relationship between the increases in obesity and corn syrup’s increasingly sweet market share and finally decided to say something. It explains how this also has a negative effect in our environment.



Hopkins, Kate. "Tariffs and Subsidies - The Literal Cost of High Fructose Corn Syrup." Web log post. Www.accidentalhedonist.com. Web. 24 Jan. 2006.

In this article, the author talks about the reasons why companies use HFCS and why HFCS is cheaper than sugar. He explains what is subsidy and makes it easy for the readers understand it. He explains what Archer Daniels Midland Corporation (ADM); a big player in the corn industry is and how it works.


BARRIONUEVO, ALEXEI. "Mountains of Corn and a Sea of Farm Subsidies." The New York Times 09 Nov. 2005. Print

This article is about the largest corn crop in history in 2005. This was too much of a good thing, drawing attention to what critics called a contradiction of the government farm subsidy program: America's efficient farmers were encouraged to produce far more than the country can use, depressing prices and raising subsidy payments. In other words, because the government wants to help America's farmers, it essentially ends up paying them both when they produce too much and when their crop prices are too low. It also gives amounts of how much the government pays on corn subsidies from 1995-2004.


Pollan, Michael. "Weed It and Reap." The New York Times [New York City] 04 Nov. 2007. Print.

An article written by Michael Pollan where he explains that in the year 2007, people finally began to ask themselves why the government keeps subsidizing corn if America is facing an obesity and diabetes epidemic. “For the first time, the public health community has raised its voice in support of overturning farm policies that subsidize precisely the wrong kind of calories”.