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Obama on Food, Big Ag and GMOs

Agriculture and food policy have not become even small issues in the 2016 presidential campaign, but on Friday, TV host Bill Maher asked President Barack Obama about “food purity” and “torturing animals on factory farms” and got answers.  Obama did not say anything that deviated from his previous statements, but it was a rare, three-minute exchange with the president on the subject.  Maher asked if food should not be put “more at the top of the agenda” on health care.  Obama replied, “We’ve got a disease care system; we should have a health care system,” which would include nutrition and exercise. Obama also noted that “for a long time, agribusiness has had an obviously prominent seat at the table in Congress, and it is bipartisan.”

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