Twinkies Vs. Carrots

Compared with a bunch of carrots, a package of Twinkies is a highly complicated, high-tech piece of manufacture, involving no fewer than 39 ingredients, many themselves elaborately manufactured, as well as the packaging and a hefty marketing budget.

So how can the supermarket possibly sell a pair of these synthetic cream-filled pseudocakes for less than a bunch of roots?

You'll find the answer in this NYTimes article (link below) called "You Are What You Grow." Read the article. It will explain not only the answer to the above question, but why Americans are so obese and how our U.S. agricultural policy--the farm bill in particular--is going to continue fattening us up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/magazine/22wwlnlede.t.html?ex=1178596800&en=400518717aae4dc1&ei=5070