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  • From: "GlobalCirclenet" <webmaster AT globalcircle.net>
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Farm Bureau
  • Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:45:41 -0600



Very good, but I didn't say FB doesn't lobby, I said it doesn't
"legislate". Legislate as in actually writing laws. It's only a lobby, and
the big money that counts works through many other fronts as well.

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On 10/10/2002 at 11:31 AM Leigh Hauter wrote:

>> It would help to keep in
>>mind that FB does not legislate agricultural or consumer policy, but is
>>only a small influence on the Big Picture.
>
>I'm sorry, the fb spends a lot of its members' money lobbying in dc.
>And while the fb might be good in some local areas, nationally it
>always sides with big business, big ag. Just look at where it threw
>its muscle with the recent farm bill -- Corporate farms over family
>farms. Big money over working farmers. This isn't speculation, these
>are facts. Think of any aspect of the farm bill where the interests
>of family farms came in conflict with large corporate interests and
>then look at the record. The FB was on the side of big money.
>







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