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Where the Trough Is Overflowing
nytimes.com/2012/06/03/opinion/sunday/where-the-trough-is-overflowing.html
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The new farm bill, like its predecessors, rewards big farmers of row crops who don’t need help and ignores small ones who do. It also threatens the environment.
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The excessive payments to corporate farms should be cut back to control erosion. If the erosion continues there..
EEUU subvenciona la comida basura y a las grandes empresas agrarias haciendo competencia desleal a cultivos sostenibles http://t.co/1IQfRxic
Great op-ed on how the current version of the Farm Bill doesn't do enough to eliminate wasteful agricultural subsidies: http://t.co/B87rAszT
"The top 20% of [farm bill] recipients from 1995 to 2010 got 90% of the subsidies; the bottom 80% just 10%." #FarmBill http://t.co/yUVAkjHK
Analysis of the Farm Bill from the NY Times | Where the Trough Is Overflowing http://t.co/3Az1Uosj
A Different Take on Ag and the New Farm Bill:
Where the Trough Is Overflowing
http://t.co/T72MY1pC