archive for the 'Farm Bill' Category

The enemy of my enemy: Why a Bush veto of the Farm Bill is bad for the food movement (and the world)

by Elanor @ Monday, May 12th, 2008.

Some sustainable-ag activists want Bush to veto the Farm Bill. Here’s why we shouldn’t.

Farm Bill end game

by Bonnie P. @ Friday, May 9th, 2008.

Tom Philpott has an important post up on Gristmill today, about the final proposal Congress has finally cobbled together for the 2007 Farm Bill, months late. Should Bush veto it or not?

Farm Bill organizers regroup in Phoenix

by Elanor @ Tuesday, April 29th, 2008.

Greetings from smoldering-hot Phoenix. (But it’s a dry heat! Right… somehow when it’s a million degrees, that caveat becomes less convincing.) It’s been a full, exhausting day. One highlight for me was playing fly on the wall during a coming-together of folks who participated in the Farm and Food Policy Project, a Kellogg-funded initiative that […]

Bucking the CAFO tax: A plea for conscientious objection

by Elanor @ Thursday, April 24th, 2008.

Here’s a number to knock you out of that mid-day stupor: every year, taxpayers shell out between $7.1 billion and $8.2 billion to subsidize or clean up after our nation’s 9,900 confined animal feeding operations. That’s the finding of “CAFOs Uncovered,” a new report released earlier today by the Union of Concerned Scientists. That amount, […]

ReDigest: Moyers on hunger, lab liability, a portrait of evil

by Ethicurean @ Monday, April 21st, 2008.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

When discrimination is more than OK: Time to call our reps about pesticide policy

by Elanor @ Wednesday, April 9th, 2008.

It’s time to call your congressperson today and tell them to vote against Section 11305 in the current mess of a Farm Bill. Inserted at the behest of pesticide manufacturers, it is titled “No Discrimination Against Use of Registered Pesticide Products or Classes of Pesticide Products,”

Food-health-agriculture connections noted at SARE conference

by Janet @ Wednesday, March 26th, 2008.

There was plenty of positive energy and discussion of the food and agriculture connection yesterday at the opening of the three-day Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program’s 20th anniversary conference, held this year in Kansas City, Missouri. More than 800 people were expected to attend, and even more that had been interested but planners […]

Digest - News: Apple-moth exposé, payment limit moving forward, food crisis

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, March 9th, 2008.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Digest - Commentary: Eating local gains political clout, food prices, corn crisis

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, March 6th, 2008.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

Digest - News: Farm Bill deals, Utah milk labeling, dairy-cow Crohn’s connection

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, March 2nd, 2008.

Digest - News: Farm Bill deals, Utah milk labeling, dairy-cow Crohn’s connection

Digest - News: EPA rolls over and smells the ammonia, corn contamination, Farm Bill stalled

by Ethicurean @ Tuesday, February 26th, 2008.

News about sustainable, organic, local and ethical food and farming from around the web, as well as about the icky stuff.

Digest - Rural: Farm Bill bloc, cattle prodding, H2O dear

by Ethicurean @ Saturday, February 2nd, 2008.

Happily, our friends at the Center for Rural Affairs have contributed this round-up of important news regarding farm and rural news contributed by Ethanol Helps, Not that Much: The benefits of ethanol production to rural communities are real, they just aren’t that significant. New research by Iowa State University Economist David Swenson details the gap between the actual number of jobs and economic activity created and the claims ethanol’s proponents make…. Now a powerful coalition of 153 liberal House members are threatening to pull their support for the final bill unless it makes significant and permanent increases in anti-hunger and nutrition programs…. (The Hill) Revolutionizing Africa: One Holstein at a Time: Uganda is the native home to the Ankole cattle, a breed uniquely adapted to the region. But the Ankole isn’t the grain-eating, milk-producing, manure-spewing machine that the American Holstein is, so now everyone from the World Bank to Heifer International is doing their best to supplant the graceful and native Ankole with the (more familiar to them) Holstein.

Pesticides, like the huddled masses, yearn to be free

by Elanor @ Friday, January 18th, 2008.

The Farm Bill is back. (Admit it — you’d been missing it.) House and Senate ag staffers have taken to lurking in each other’s offices and furrowing their brows over what could be a protracted conflict between members of the conference committee, that group of reps and senators assigned to turn the meat grinder on […]

Digest - Commentary: Obama’s and Clinton’s Big Ag donations, pro-GMO, it’s baaack

by Ethicurean @ Friday, January 11th, 2008.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

Digest - Commentary: Philpott on cheap-food schadenfreude, rBST booster, make our own damn Farm Bill

by Ethicurean @ Friday, December 21st, 2007.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

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