Business
How the Government Is Quietly Changing What Foods Americans Eat
- USDA programs push mushrooms, berries onto restaurant menus
- Farmers’ returns average about $9 for every marketing dollar
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Sonic Corp. is mixing chopped mushrooms with ground beef to make cheeseburgers, and the U.S. government is behind it.
Sonic Signature Slingers are a calculated effort of the farmer-funded Mushroom Council, one of 22 such rah-rah groups created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to promote commodities such as cotton, mangoes and Christmas trees.