Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama unveiled his agriculture plan yesterday on the campaign trail in Iowa. The plan includes all kinds of proposals that the Obama camp hopes will excite rural Americans -- particularly those who reside in early-primary states. Obama's ag plans include increasing funding to help farmers transition to organic, reforming the USDA's crop-insurance program so it doesn't penalize organic farmers, requiring country-of-origin labeling on meat products, enforcing stricter pollution regulations for CAFOs (concentrated animal-feeding operations), increasing use of ethanol and other biofuels by requiring 60 billion gallons of biofuels in the nation's fuel supply by 2030, and limiting subsidies to huge agribusiness operations. "Too many family farmers are being squeezed as big agribusiness take up larger shares of federal subsidies, takes up more market share, manipulates prices and contracts, makes it harder for family farmers to control how they run their own farms," Obama said.
source: The Associated Press, The Des Moines Register
source: Barack Obama’s Rural Plan
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askantik Posted 3:54 am
17 Oct 2007
Guess who does mention those two things...
Check out this video if you don't mind the word BS
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Network for New Energy Choices Posted 3:54 am
17 Oct 2007
Want the real scoop on Biofules, check out:
The Rush to Ethanol: Not All Biofuels Are Created Equal.
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askantik Posted 3:55 am
17 Oct 2007
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Vikingsson Posted 1:42 am
18 Oct 2007
Exactly. Nobody will talk about this. But is is much too late as nearly all food in N.A. is already GM. We missed our chance years ago to simply have labeling of GM products like much of Europe has. Your food is patented and it is unknown what catastrophe awaits us down the road. Not to mention the taste and lack of nutrition as nature intended.
If you think that fast food is safe because they offer salads now, think again.
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farmboy27 Posted 5:33 am
17 Nov 2007
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