Saturday, February 23, 2008

100% Un-Cotton, Agricultural Inequities

FOOD FEEDS of the MOMENT.

What happened to the cotton?

"Is our farm-subsidy system too broken?", asked a February 22nd New York Times editorial? Can the House and Senate propose legislation that all farms are created equal? Unless there is true leadership who are pro-sustainable-agricultural business, there becomes more and more indication that our nation can face a food calamity. Whatever happened to simply giving farmers direct compensation as opposed to piping it through big business?

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