Your tax dollars going to subsidize cheezier Dominos Pizza

One of the least talked about enormous wastes of taxpayer money has to be the obscene agricultural subsidies. I don't know what it is, maybe the myth of the American farmer or some shit, but whereas it is offensive or socialistic to throw money at the american auto industry it is somehow perfectly acceptable, even noble, to subsidize the american agricultural industry.

Even worse than the billions to trillions of tax dollars spent on agra-corporate welfare programs every year are the billions that go directly to subsidizing food that kills us. Sorry to go all Mike Pollan on y'all's asses but The New York Times did a good piece this weekend detailing just one example of this nonsense that I wanted to share...

Then help arrived from an organization called Dairy Management. It teamed up with Domino’s to develop a new line of pizzas with 40 percent more cheese, and proceeded to devise and pay for a $12 million marketing campaign.

Consumers devoured the cheesier pizza, and sales soared by double digits. “This partnership is clearly working,” Brandon Solano, the Domino’s vice president for brand innovation, said in a statement to The New York Times.

But as healthy as this pizza has been for Domino’s, one slice contains as much as two-thirds of a day’s maximum recommended amount of saturated fat, which has been linked to heart disease and is high in calories.

And Dairy Management, which has made cheese its cause, is not a private business consultant. It is a marketing creation of the United States Department of Agriculture — the same agency at the center of a federal anti-obesity drive that discourages over-consumption of some of the very foods Dairy Management is vigorously promoting.

Just to be clear, other than the fact that their pizza fucking sucks, I don't think the Domino's should be chastised for this. I think the US government should. Someone should write those tea-party fucks about this and see what they say about cutting this program as a part of their anti-socialist agenda. Or something...