"If you are subsidizing rice, if you are distributing rice for a very cheap price, it means that people are not really going to produce rice in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

But David DeGennaro with the Environmental Working Group puts it this way: "It's really kind of ridiculous that American taxpayers are going to be subsidizing Brazilian cotton farmers just so that we can keep on subsidizing our own cotton farmers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28