One of the answers to making America healthier isn’t to add more subsidies for farmers markets and the like, it is to simply END the subsidies we’re handing out to big agribusiness and farmers already, particularly grain. And then if you want, go a step farther and stop our foolish sugar policies, and maybe food producers will start using more sugar instead of the heavily subsidized corn syrup, which tastes like shit by comparison and fools the body.
On top of these obvious and immediate benefits, we would also have more power negotiating trade agreements and a greater ability to demand more open markets abroad.