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Posted at 11:59 AM on 02 May 2008

• An educational website says it's auctioning the ozone hole on eBay.

• Thailand proposes a Southeast Asian rice cartel to control the price of rice.

• The U.S. has officially shut down most salmon fisheries on its West Coast.

• Tyson Foods ordered to suspend its ads touting antibiotic-free chickens.

• Dead zones in the Pacific and Atlantic are expanding.

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Stop US subsidies for NOT growing rice

Let us get rid of this immoral practice of giving subsidies to rice growers (e.g., in Texas) who DO NOT grow anything at all.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/expose/2008/04/302-index.html

This practice contribute to the food shortage and feeds antiamericanism over the world.

Politicians who support this ugly practice should be denounced. I suggest to use this money to feed people instead.

by Harvey at 5:29 AM on 03 May 2008

Subsidies For Not Growing

Subsidies for not growing anything are good for the Earth. Fields need to lay fallow for awhile in order to replace nutrients used by growing crops. And because the vast majority of agriculture used petrochemical pesticides and fertilizers, any fallow fields are that much less poisoning of our planet.

What's really egregious is paying subsidies to rich farmers, AKA agribusiness. Subsidies should only be paid to small family farmers. Corporate welfare is should be ended.

by Wolverine at 10:40 AM on 03 May 2008

re

I think, this should have been a separate thread (I am not too familiar with the forum). Maybe a friendly moderator can make it a separate thread. Thanks.

by Harvey at 3:30 PM on 03 May 2008

Subsidies for growing rice to farmers who don't

I Don't think you watch the video in my initial message.

by Harvey at 3:33 PM on 03 May 2008

Video Doesn't Change My Points

Well, that's 25 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Nothing on the video contradicts anything in my previous post. In fact, the video is irrelevant to my points. Whether people are stealing our tax money is a completely different issue than the harms that agriculture, especially chemical agriculture, cause. Additionally, I'd much rather having people getting subsidies to grow nothing than to further destroy the land with pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

Maybe you don't get MY point: It's much better for the Earth to not have farmers destroying land with agriculture. Theft of tax money is a minor detail in comparison.

by Wolverine at 3:54 PM on 04 May 2008

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