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 Stories About: ag policy AND ag subsidies AND agriculture AND George Bush AND industrial ag AND legislation AND politics
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Agro-sham
Bush and farm policy 'reform' |
Tom Philpott |
17 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| In the farm bill debate, the Bush administration has joined Environmental Defense Fund, The Environmental Working Group, and other Big Green groups in taking a 'reform' position: subsidies are bad, so let's cut them. I've been arguing that this position amounts to no reform at all, because it doesn't address the underlying problem of U.S. farming: the relentless pressure on our farmland from chemical-intensive agriculture -- an arrangement that in the end benefits ag ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, George Bush, industrial ag, legislation, politics (all these topics) |
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