Congress Deaf to US Opinion on Farm Bill
by Sangamithra Iyer
For more than 15 years, the Environmental Working Group has been active protecting public health and the environment with public information. Their latest tool: an interactive map of editorials from newspapers around the country demanding reform of the Farm Bill that Congress is fixing to reauthorize without much change.

The editorials unmask the economic unfairness of the farm bill and show a nation ready for a break from record-high commodity prices, rising rates of obesity and diabetes, and growing concern about industrial agriculture’s contribution to global warming and other environmental perils.

The editorials reveal a people ready for a paradigm shift all over the U.S. and particularly in the agricultural heartland, but neither the House or Senate versions of the subsidy-laden 2007 Farm Bill come close to making the needed fixes.

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