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Big pigs at the trough: the worst agriculture policy money can buy.

Publication: Sierra
Publication Date: 01-NOV-03 		Format: Online - approximately 873 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Big pigs at the trough: the worst agriculture policy money can buy.(Ways & Means)(Farm Bill of 2002)

Article Excerpt
Ask me to list the top ten environmental sins of the Bush administration and I'm stumped. How do you rank clearcutting ancient forests, handing out licenses to pollute, and total disregard for the future? But ask me to name the single most colossally bad policy and it's easy: the Farm Bill of 2002.

Part of the tragedy of the Farm Bill is its lost promise. Agriculture secretary Ann Veneman actually started the Bush administration out on the same progressive path as that of Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), who proposed legislation focused on stabilizing rural livelihoods, enhancing rural environments, and ending crop subsidies.

But before long Veneman and Lugar's vision was hijacked by the usual agribusiness interests, and we ended up instead with a bloated grotesquerie of subsidies totaling $180 billion....

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