Michael Pollan has the goods:
However many worthwhile programs get tacked onto the farm bill to buy off its critics, they won't bring meaningful reform to the American food system until the subsidies are addressed -- until the underlying rules of the food game are rewritten. This is a conversation that the Old Guard on the agriculture committees simply does not want to have, at least not with us.
In other words, contact your Senators today!
- Log in to post comments
More like this
Organic foods from your supermarket may comply with the requirements of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Organic Program, but are you really buying what you think you're buying?
Many people "go organic" because they want to buy family-farmed, locally-operated produce. But as Steven…
The Miami-Herald is reporting today that food stamp use has more than doubled among Floridians in the last three years:
More than 2.5 million Floridians are on food stamps, up from three years ago where 1.2 million residents received assistance.
That's according to records kept by the Department of…
Kari Hamerschlag has a post up about the upcoming Farm Bill and its potential to move money away from large scale industrial agriculture and towards smaller producers. For most small farmers producing for local markets, the idea is heady - after all, the economics agriculture are tenuous for many…
This post ties together a number of themes that I have been harping upon
for the past few years. First, from Greg Mankiw's blog:
href="http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2008/11/whats-wrong-with-efficient-scale.html">What's
wrong with the efficient scale?
Reuters reports:
President-elect…