but if you're my generation you would have heard of him,

但如果你们与我同辈就会听过
and his name is Earl Butz.

他就是厄尔·巴兹
Earl Butz was a very--a visible and flamboyant Secretary of Agriculture.

厄尔·巴兹身为农业部长可谓显赫耀眼
Usually nobody knows who the Secretary of Agriculture is,

一般没有人会知道农业部长是谁
but at that time people did, because Butts was in the news a lot.

但那时不同因为巴兹常在新闻里出现
He and Nixon had decided to put into gear

他和尼克松决定开始着手投入
a series of agriculture subsidies to help farmers.

一系列的农业补贴来扶持农民
This was a well meaning thing based on the real need.

这一举措基于实情需要意义重大
Nobody knew that it was going to have nutrition consequences.

没人想到这会对营养学造成影响
Essentially, what they decided to do was to

原本他们这样做是为了
subsidize very heavily some basic commodity crops in the United States,

大量补贴美国的一些基本的商品作物
with corn and soybeans at the lead.

其中以谷类和豆类为主