Why the Farm Bill Matters
By Louisa Kasdon
Food activists call this a special window in time to make sure the 2012 Farm Bill supports an agenda that puts a higher premium on sustainability than it does on the status quo.
Almost no one claims to understand the Farm Bill. It runs 663 pages (in very fine print), with a 14-page table of contents and 15 different titles. Its line items add up to $84 billion a year, funded by the United States taxpayers. (Peanuts compared to the trillion-dollar Defense Bill.) The Farm Bill comes up for re-authorization only once every … Read More
