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EU Proposal: Shift Farming Subsidies To Science
smitty777 writes "There is a proposal in the EU budget which would provide a 45% increase in technology and innovation spending for the 2014-2020 time period. Interestingly, some of the increase from $79B to $114B would come from the controversial farm subsidies program, the Common Agricultural Policy. The article states ... 'While some scientists and observers feel optimistic that the proposal will pass, one stated that "it is extremely unlikely that the member states will agree to anything exceeding this, so we should regard it as a ceiling" on the eventual research budget.'"
I only wish they would do this in the USA with the corn subsidy program. It's crazy that a huge amount of our tax money goes to making ethanol, starch and deadly high fructose corn syrop.
It would be ironic as all heck to have money from the corn mafia to be uses for something I've dreamed of for years. Roughly laid out, here's the idea that's been in my head since the dangers of HFCS have come to light:
- have a large clinic set up with 101 beds and 101 Chiropractors.
- Have 101 people show up.
- Ask them about their consumption of HFCS products (especially soda which is double bad with all that CO2).
- Have each Chiropractors inspect each patient's spine in utmost detail, taking note of each and every subluxation, even minor ones which have yet to cause health issues.
- Yes, that means 101 inspections per patient with a different doctor, but some Docs may miss things.
- Cross reference the numbers & severity with the HFCS consumption.
- If and when (yes WHEN) the numbers are in and HFCS is shown to promote subluxation growth, publish the results in a journal such as Nature so the general public will learn of the dangers.
Of course setting up such a vast and detailed study would cost lots of money, that's why we need government funding for such sweeping science.
Take care,
Bob
Chiropractic Saves Lives!
In a related study, the US Congress has decided to repurpose health and education subsidies to a scientific program designed to determine which bombs Jesus would have used against which foreigners.