Cory Booker: “A Twinkie-like product is cheaper than an apple [in my own…”

“We are subsidizing the sickness, then we are subsidizing the medicine. And American families, American taxpayers are losing twice. Take for example, my own neighborhood in Newark. A kid walks into the corner bodega and A Twinkie-like product is cheaper than an apple [in my own neighborhood in Newark]. Let that sink in. Because of what we subsidize, the Twinkie like product is cheaper than the apple. Multinational corporations have built a food system where the food that will kill us is cheaper than the food that will save us.” (05:26–05:32)

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