[BikerNYC]

There will be many who speak out against farm subsidies.

Only capitalists.

[DoughtyOne]

If you had any idea what was taking place in the pharmaceutical industry right now, you'd lay off the capitalist vs socialist mantra. There are times when the capitalist system doesn't cure all ailes. There are currently upwards of fifty important medications that are unavailable from any pharmaceutical source.

Snake bite antivenin, tetanus, certain third generation anti-biotics and other items can't be purchased at any price right now.

How would you like to see that happen to food?

Look, we live in a corporate environment right now that is as cut throat as I have ever seen. In the interest of the bottom line pharmaceutical houses are dropping items that have been mainstays for decades. Some of those mainstays are the best treatments available. Some of those items are the only treatments available. They are single sourced and dumped on a whim, even though profits are still being made. It's just that those profits aren't top dollar and skew the corporate reports.

I pitty the person who gets snake bit this year.

I would submit that doing away with farm subsidies might be the biggest snake bite of all.