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 Stories About: ag policy AND ag subsidies AND agriculture AND climate AND industrial ag
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Farming and climate change
More evidence that industrial ag is destroying the planet |
Tom Philpott |
04 Nov 2007 |
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| From an ecological standpoint, the fundamental problem with U.S. farm policy dating back to the '70s is that it rewards farmers for maximizing yield at all cost. Encouraged to produce as much as possible, all the time, farmers have few incentives to conserve resources or protect water, air, or soil quality. The federal government's dizzying array of biofuel subsidies -- which have propped up crop prices and encouraged yet more production -- only exacerbates the situ ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, climate, industrial ag (all these topics) |
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