Campaigning to Stop the USDA from Subsidizing
Factory Farms, Genetic Engineering and Junk Food
Over the past few months, OCA supporters have sent over 50,000 letters to Capitol Hill, calling on our elected representatives to pass a 2007 Farm Bill that supports family farmers, organics, locally grown foods, adequate funding for low-income nutrition programs such as food stamps, and sustainable agriculture. The Farm Bill is a massive $300 billion appropriations bill allocating federal tax funds for food, farming, and nutrition programs for the next five years.
Unfortunately and predictably, the power of big agribusiness's lobbying machine has once again successfully convinced an indentured Congress to stick with the status quo and hand over billions of dollars in subsidies for chemical-intensive, energy-intensive and GE crops, factory farms, cheap meats, and high fructose corn syrup junk food products. Thanks in part to your letters, organic farmers and related sustainable agriculture programs will receive slightly more funding than usual, but it's still a small pittance in comparison to the portion of taxpayer money routed through the Farm Bill to giant industrial-scale farms and transnational corporations like Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill, Wal-Mart, Tyson, and Monsanto, who profit from dumping the world's most heavily subsidized, environmentally destructive, and unhealthy foods on the plates of consumers.
www.organicconsumers.org/farm.cfm
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