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Show FARM FACTS Food Costs Less In Proportion Food costs today actually take a smaller percentage of consumer income than they did 20 years ago. Only 16 of disposable income in the U.S. is now spent for food as compared to 23 two decades ago. In addition, today's to-day's food is of better quality, wider diversity, and safer than that anywhere else in the world. Pesticides Allow Varied Menu Pesticides' importance to the consumer is pointed up in a rcent issue of the American Medical Association's Associ-ation's official journal. Without With-out pesticides, the journal noted, every second or third tomato and potato crop would be wiped out. What's more, oranges and grapefruits grape-fruits would be curiosities, and food costs in general would quadruple. |