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An uncivil war: Mapping the defeat of subsidy reform
These days, votes in the Senate are usually either along party lines (51-49), or lopsided like 98-2 or 100-0. However, the vote on the Dorgan-Grassley amendment, which would have set a $250,000 limit for farm subsidy payments to any one farm, was unusual. The No votes were cast by 31 Republicans, 11 Democrats and […]
Digest - News: Farm Bill foundering, FRESH Act fails, FDA-China pact
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Blogs: Hillary’s in bed with Big Meat — and we don’t mean Bill
Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.
The blame frame, part 2: Who wins, and who whines, when corn prices rise
In my last post, I took a lengthy look at the role that farmers play in the livestock production system. In case you didn’t make it that far, here’s my conclusion: In their role as feed-growers and animal-raisers, farmers are an important but virtually powerless piece of the system. Wedged between big companies selling them […]
Digest - News: Seattle market bans HFCS, fertilizing Malawi, FDA bashes self
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - News: Answer to Alice Waters mystery, Farm Bill stalls again, avian flu back in UK
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Commentary: Journalists protest NAIS secrecy, Farm Bill reformers split
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
Digest - News: AgSec threatens Farm Bill veto, farmworkers win pesticide lawsuit
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Features: Farmers, dairymen protest govt crackdowns; rare farm-animal breeds; superbugs coming
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Digest - Commentary: Farm Bill fur flying, humane groups proposing Cal. initiative
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
“Weed It and Reap”: Michael Pollan shreds current Farm Bill in the New York Times
Michael Pollan has an op-ed in today’s New York Times that explains, in his trademark clear, wryly humorous style, why the current version of the Farm Bill the Senate is preparing to pass is “very much a farm bill in the traditional let-them-eat-high-fructose-corn-syrup mold.”
The revolving door between government and industry
Here’s something that might make you feel a bit less secure about the safety of your food: the director of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) is becoming the senior vice president and chief science and regulatory affairs officer at the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA).
Robert E. Brackett, Ph.D. has extensive […]
Calling your senators about the Farm Bill can have unexpected results
A funny thing happened when I called my senators this week to ask their support of the Dorgan-Grassley Amendment, which would “put a hard cap of $250,000 on commodity payments, close loopholes, and shift the savings to rural development, beginning and minority farmer, conservation, nutrition, and anti-hunger programs,” according to the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.
Digest - News: New AgSec nominated, organic food is superior (duh), meat zombies
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
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