Burkina Faso fact of the day
Over 2001 and 2002, America’s 25,000 cotton farmers received more subsidies — about $3 billion — than the entire economic output of Burkina Faso in a year. Two million people in Burkina Faso live partly or fully from cotton farming.
The information is from Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case for the Independent Farm and Against Industrial Food, by George Pyle. The book is more libertarian and less anti-corporate than the title makes it sound.