Please, please, please kill the farm bill
There’s a nasty piece of legislation that gets written by some very powerful lobbyists every few years and passed through Washington. The express intent of this bill is to ensure that commodity crops protected from the free market and that industrial farms are given public handouts. The side effect of this bill is that foods like high fructose corn syrup and corn fed (high in fat) beef are artificially cheap due to the public subsidy. It’s a real lose-lose situation for everyone but the industrial farmer.
Farm programs, like all corporate welfare, involve taking money from people who have earned it and giving it to people who have not. There’s nothing exceptional about them.
Please read these two articles to learn a bit more about this terrible legislation that’s ruining our environment, our food supply, and our economy. (Wow, Tad, that’s a bit extreme)
If you align more with the progressives, you’ll hate the farm bill because it’s destroying our bodies and environment. If you align more with the conservatives, you’ll hate the farm bill because it’s the biggest federal handout going and it’s expressly anti-free market.
If you’re me, you’ll hate the farm bill for all of the above.
Filed under economics, environment, politics : Comments (1) : Nov 14th, 2007 by tadfad
November 14th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Special shout-out to Dustin and Jensi for suggesting the Pollan article. Thank you!