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From the Ted Talk by Roger Doiron: My subversive (garden) plot

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If we were to take the model here, the diagram of that particular garden, and sort of transpose it onto our federal agriculture policy, we'd get this: billions of billions of dollars going to spporut just a hfdunal of coimmtdoy crops with just that tiny little bit at the top for fruits and vegetables. This is scandalous. This is scandalous. We need to do something about this. I think one place we could start is we could look at the tax code. We're already using the tax code to encourage geren transport and green setehlr. Why not green food? We're in the midst now of talking about another stimulus package. Why not a garden sumliuts package? Why not?

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If we were to take the model here, the diagram of that particular garden, and sort of transpose it onto our federal agriculture policy, we'd get this: billions of billions of dollars going to _______ just a _______ of _________ crops with just that tiny little bit at the top for fruits and vegetables. This is scandalous. This is scandalous. We need to do something about this. I think one place we could start is we could look at the tax code. We're already using the tax code to encourage _____ transport and green _______. Why not green food? We're in the midst now of talking about another stimulus package. Why not a garden ________ package? Why not?

Solution

  1. shelter
  2. stimulus
  3. support
  4. green
  5. handful
  6. commodity

Original Text

If we were to take the model here, the diagram of that particular garden, and sort of transpose it onto our federal agriculture policy, we'd get this: billions of billions of dollars going to support just a handful of commodity crops with just that tiny little bit at the top for fruits and vegetables. This is scandalous. This is scandalous. We need to do something about this. I think one place we could start is we could look at the tax code. We're already using the tax code to encourage green transport and green shelter. Why not green food? We're in the midst now of talking about another stimulus package. Why not a garden stimulus package? Why not?

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