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If you can stomach it
Editorial pages across the country are ripping apart the Senate's recently passed version of the farm bill, much as they excoriated the House version of last summer. Under either bill, billions of taxpayers' dollars that could have been spent expanding the supply of organic and local foods, protecting the environment, and making school lunches edible and healthier -- helping small and mid-sized family farmers along the way -- will be spent instead on the same plantation-scale commodity farms we've been subsidizing for decades. As The Salt Lake Tribune put it, "If you want to know why the American people have such a low opinion of Congress, do a little reading about the $286 billion farm bill the Senate passed on Friday."
My colleague Don has compiled some of the dozens of pro-reform editorials into a single post over at Mulch. As long as they keep coming in (and we bet they will), we'll keep posting them.
When will governments the world over realise that small scale farming is both a socially and economically valid pursuit? A great resource on what is a very sad state of affairs. Cheers, Alex.