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Think food, renewable energy, nutrition, environmental stewardship and everyone getting enough to eat. How about stable families and healthy communities? We are talking about the very fabric of society.
In the next few months Congress will pass a new farm bill. A new farm bill is crafted every five years. The one we get this year will profoundly affect the very fabric of our society. It’s a good idea to keep an eye on it.
Have ever wondered why a package of Twinkies with its 29 heavily processed ingredients, its fancy packaging and distributing costs less than a handful of locally grown organic carrots? Have you ever wondered why family farms keep on disappearing while corporate agribusiness expands?
Why isn’t there more locally grown food in our schools? Why is corporate agribusiness rewarded for eroding the quality of the environment? What has happened to our wetlands, forests and pastures of plenty?
The answers to these questions and many more like them are to be found in past farm bills. The farm bill largely determines the relationship of our farms with farmers around the world. The farm bill impacts climate change, fossil fuel dependence, childhood obesity and dwindling biodiversity.
The Community Food Security Coalition has produced another 11 videos on the effects of the farm bill. They also have an informative web site. Oxfam website offers information on the effects of the farm bill and why it’s important to everyone, not just farmers.
June/July 2007 issue of Mother Earth News contains an article titled Take Action: Support a Better Farm Bill By Willie Nelson, Farm Aid president. He starts his article with,”I believe nothing is as central to our well-being as food- who grows it and how.”
For Congressional contact information, visit www.congress.org. You’ll find helpful tips and talking points at www.capwiz.com/bread/home and www.ucsaction.org/campaign/2007_farm_bill. To keep up with farm policy news, visit www.farmpolicy.com. You can sign up for e-mail updates from Farm Aid at www.farmaid.org.
If you don’t think this is where peace begins then you haven’t been listening.
Tags: Appropriate Technology, Environment, Family Farms, Peace, Willie Nelson
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May 25th, 2007 at 4:38 am
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