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"Where They Grow Our Junk Food" [1]

To get to the root of the obesity epidemic, one Canadian reporter went in search of a junk food farm. There were no fields of Dorito bags waving in the breeze. "What you do see are vast operations growing the raw materials for junk food: soybeans and corn."

Margaret Webb reports for the Toronto Star October 11, 2009. [2]

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Source: Toronto Star [2], 10/12/2009
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