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
The idea here is the American farmers were suffering

当时的想法是因为本土农民正遭受着来自
in the world marketplace, and something needed to be done

国际市场的冲击政府需出手
to help change market forces to support them.

来推动市场力量转变从而帮助农民
There was political unrest because of high food prices in the U.S.

当时因美国食品价格居高而导致政局动荡
They wanted to promote maximum production of food in the U.S.

政府当时想提升美国粮食的最高产量