Via Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI).
Compare the White House’s Spring 2011 Kitchen Garden with what KGI calls the “subsidy garden,” and you can see (from the graphic),
What the White House garden would look like if it were planted to reflect the relative costs of the main crops subsidized by US taxpayers.
For a better look, here’s the big graphic.
In a word: Corn. Corn, corn, corn. Corn? Corn! And when that’s done? A little more corn.
Speaking of corn, Sarah Palin is taking aim at ending ethanol subsidies. With the Republican primaries kicking off in their great state this January, Iowan corn farmers and Big Ag donors who are dependent on those subsidies must be thinking, “Huh?”
H/t Rima Abunassar
