Now it all comes together.
I've been hearing a lot of buzz lately about the Farm Bill, and I've been having an impossible time finding out what it is. But finally! This morning the Cornucopia Institute posted about what exactly the Farm Bill means.
I balk whenever I see a bill that would increase spending on a long list of things, but just a quick skim over the articles posted by the Cornucopia Institute over the past few weeks is enough to show just how much of a problem food is in this country:
- Our food is less nutritious.
- It is increasingly coming from far away places--which means it is less fresh.
- A great deal of the food we eat is genetically modified.
The Farm Bill isn't a cure all, but it attempts to fix some of these things. It will spread the agricultural funding around, so the smaller farms that are more apt to take a risk on organic food--or even just growing fruits and vegetables, will have more of a chance to survive. It will support organic food research, and it will help ensure that children and the poor have access to better food.
If this bill is everything that the Cornucopia Institute says it is, I think it's a no-brainer. I'm shocked that there's so much controversy surrounding it. Everyone knows that there is a health crisis going on in this country. How could we possibly justify continuing to fund corporations, whose only response is to just grow more mutant corn?
Comments, Trackbacks, Pingbacks
The URI to TrackBack this entry is:
Leave a comment
Allowed XHTML tags: <p, ul, ol, li, dl, dt, dd, address, blockquote, ins, del, span, bdo, br, em, strong, dfn, code, samp, kdb, var, cite, abbr, acronym, q, sub, sup, tt, i, b, big, small>
Based solely on the name, and no other information, I am skeptical about their ulterior motives.
(And for the record, I wholeheartedly support local, organic, pesticide-free, and otherwise hippy food. I get all my produce from a family-owned farm less than fifty miles from my house, and most of my meat and dairy come from local farms via a local butcher. What I don't support are blatantly biased studies.)
Comment by Benazeer [Visitor] — 07/09/07 @ 13:59
Comment by kristy [Member] · http://kristy.fremde.org — 07/09/07 @ 15:41