"GEMA Summary April, 15 1998:
Amount spent to produce food consumed
in the US in 1996 (farm cost): $126 billion.
Amount spent on marketing it: $421 billion"
Yesterday Steve Suppan of IATP sent me a short piece by a Montana wheat
farmer, Jerry Sikorski entitled "Oversupply or Monopoly?". It includes
this passage:
"Tiger Woods gets paid ten cents for having his picture on each box of
Wheaties, and the farmer gets five cents for raising the wheat."
Can this really be true? I hope someone will pursue this further.
chuck
Charles Benbrook CU FQPA site www.ecologic-ipm.com
Benbrook Consulting Services Ag BioTech InfoNet www.biotech-info.net
5085 Upper Pack River Road IPM site www.pmac.net
Sandpoint, Idaho 83864
208-263-5236 (Voice) 208-263-7342 (Fax)
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