http://blogs.edf.org/healthyfarms/2007/07/22/speaker-pelosi-please-make-our-farm-and-food-policies-fair/ A daily update on the debates shaping the 2007 Farm Bill Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:49:51 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 http://blogs.edf.org/healthyfarms/2007/07/22/speaker-pelosi-please-make-our-farm-and-food-policies-fair/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Pages tagged "ruminant" Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:49:51 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/healthyfarms/2007/07/22/speaker-pelosi-please-make-our-farm-and-food-policies-fair/#comment-131 [...] bookmarks tagged ruminant Speaker Pelosi: Please Make Our Farm and Food Poli... saved by 1 others     UltramasterBDJ bookmarked on 01/21/08 | [...] [...] bookmarks tagged ruminant Speaker Pelosi: Please Make Our Farm and Food Poli… saved by 1 others     UltramasterBDJ bookmarked on 01/21/08 | [...]

]]> http://blogs.edf.org/healthyfarms/2007/07/22/speaker-pelosi-please-make-our-farm-and-food-policies-fair/comment-page-1/#comment-34 l. miceli Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:19:19 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/healthyfarms/2007/07/22/speaker-pelosi-please-make-our-farm-and-food-policies-fair/#comment-34 let's eliminate subsidies to ALL farmers and especially to those who are growing corn for ETHANOL. let's eliminate subsidies to ALL farmers and especially to those who are growing corn for ETHANOL.

]]> http://blogs.edf.org/healthyfarms/2007/07/22/speaker-pelosi-please-make-our-farm-and-food-policies-fair/comment-page-1/#comment-33 FarmPolicy.com » Blog Archives » Farm Bill Update Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:35:48 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/healthyfarms/2007/07/22/speaker-pelosi-please-make-our-farm-and-food-policies-fair/#comment-33 [...] Scott Faber, writing at The Ruminant on Sunday indicated that, “The ‘Fairness in Farm and Food Policy’ amendment will reduce and restructure depression-era subsidies to help more farmers and to help meet America’s urgent health, hunger and environmental priorities. [...] [...] Scott Faber, writing at The Ruminant on Sunday indicated that, “The ‘Fairness in Farm and Food Policy’ amendment will reduce and restructure depression-era subsidies to help more farmers and to help meet America’s urgent health, hunger and environmental priorities. [...]

]]> http://blogs.edf.org/healthyfarms/2007/07/22/speaker-pelosi-please-make-our-farm-and-food-policies-fair/comment-page-1/#comment-32 CAP Health Check » Blog Archive » How not to reform farm subsidies (American style) Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:44:29 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/healthyfarms/2007/07/22/speaker-pelosi-please-make-our-farm-and-food-policies-fair/#comment-32 [...] Ever since the subject of farm subsidy fat cats hit the headlines in the US, the issue of payment limits has been at the forefront of the debate. Ken Cook, whose courageous work on transparency in farm subsidy payments has blazed a path where the European farmsubsidy.org network has followed says that the House bill’s rules on payment limits are riddled with loopholes. Meanwhile Dan Owens as the Center for Rural Affairs dismisses Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s commitment to reform as a sham. He says that House Democrats are wrong to fear an electoral backlash from rural America if they pass a Bill that tackles the inequality in the current farm subsidy system. Scott Faber at Environmental Defense says that the House bill would perpetuate the failures and injustices of the past: More than half of all farm spending will continue to flow to just 20 congressional districts. Millions of hungry kids will continue to go to bed without knowing the source of their next meal. Thousands of family farmers offering to share the cost of a healthy environment will continue to be turned away. Thousands more family farmers will be driven off the land by larger neighbors now able to collect unlimited farm subsidies. Subsistence farmers in the developing world will be pushed closer to ruin by subsidies that drive down global cotton prices. Black and Latino farmers will continue to lack adequate access to farm programs from which they have long been excluded. Fruit and vegetable farmers will receive a small slice — but not nearly a fair share — of federal farm spending pie. [...] [...] Ever since the subject of farm subsidy fat cats hit the headlines in the US, the issue of payment limits has been at the forefront of the debate. Ken Cook, whose courageous work on transparency in farm subsidy payments has blazed a path where the European farmsubsidy.org network has followed says that the House bill’s rules on payment limits are riddled with loopholes. Meanwhile Dan Owens as the Center for Rural Affairs dismisses Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s commitment to reform as a sham. He says that House Democrats are wrong to fear an electoral backlash from rural America if they pass a Bill that tackles the inequality in the current farm subsidy system. Scott Faber at Environmental Defense says that the House bill would perpetuate the failures and injustices of the past: More than half of all farm spending will continue to flow to just 20 congressional districts. Millions of hungry kids will continue to go to bed without knowing the source of their next meal. Thousands of family farmers offering to share the cost of a healthy environment will continue to be turned away. Thousands more family farmers will be driven off the land by larger neighbors now able to collect unlimited farm subsidies. Subsistence farmers in the developing world will be pushed closer to ruin by subsidies that drive down global cotton prices. Black and Latino farmers will continue to lack adequate access to farm programs from which they have long been excluded. Fruit and vegetable farmers will receive a small slice — but not nearly a fair share — of federal farm spending pie. [...]

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