From my favorite writer in the herald, Andres Oppenheimer:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/andres_oppenheimer/story/553776.html "While most of us were looking elsewhere, the U.S. Congress passed a 2008 farm bill that could hardly be worse: it subsidizes rich U.S. farmers, hurts most American consumers, poisons the environment, doesn't help alleviate world hunger and harms Latin American and other world food producers."