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  • From: Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] $90B farm welfare
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:06:50 -0700 (PDT)

Each year, the U.S. government spends about $90 billion to ensure that its citizens have cheap food.  This leads us to ask, “Who should get the $90 billion?
 
This Saturday at 9am Pacific, the Food Chain with Michael Olson hosts
John Keeling from the National Potato Council and Larry Mitchell from the American Corn Growers Association for a conversation about the 2007 Farm Bill.    
 
Log on www.metrofarm.com to listen on your radio, computer or IPOD.
 
Topics include why governments subsidize agriculture; why 70% of U.S. subsidies go to 10% of the country’s farmers; and which farmers should get the money.
 
Question of the Week: Who should get our $90 billion?

http://farm.ewg.org/farm/index.php  gives the names of farmers and corporations and how much welfare they received.
 
Ken Hargesheimer


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