Tuesday, June 19, 2012

2.8 billion Twinkies

Friends,

Some of the money that you and I pay in taxes ends up in Twinkies.

More than $1 billion in tax subsidies help pay for junk food ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils that are main ingredients in Twinkies, soda and thousands of other junk food products.

That's the equivalent of 2.8 billion Twinkies every year -- which, if you laid on the road, could pave a highway 382 miles long and 63 feet wide!

These subsidies could expire in August, but Big Ag is lobbying hard to keep them. That's why I'm joining thousands of others to call on Congress to end junk food subsidies. You should sign too.

http://bit.ly/MaUG71

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