Bait and Switch: Farm Subsidies for Big-Ag in Disguise

October 23rd, 2011 - Jill Ettinger

corn farm

In the wake of major proposed recent farm budget cuts as part of the Obama administration’s new deficit reduction program (“Living Within Our Means and Investing in the Future”) that will pull more than $33 billion in agriculture subsidies from the nations’ farmers, lawmakers and farm lobbyists are attempting to route that same money under a new name right back to the nation’s big-ag farmers rather than small-scale or family owned farms.

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America’s Farm Bill: Good, Bad or Both?

July 14th, 2011 - Jill Ettinger

Family farm

The Environmental Working Group, best known for the “Dirty Dozen” and “Clean Fifteen” lists of fruits and vegetables most and least exposed to pesticides, has compiled a helpful list about the farm bill that Congress is expected to enact over the next 18 months.

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