FTLA member Siel of greenLAgirl gives us the scoop on where the Farm Bill stands. Seems like Pelosi wants to continue the subsidies for corn, cotton, and more.
Turning a deaf ear to the grassroots efforts for farm bill reform, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s now pushing a farm bill “would keep multibillion-dollar subsidies flowing to cotton, corn and a handful of other crops,” the SF Chronicle reports.
Pelosi’s plan and “would grant subsidies to farmers earning up to $1 million — five times more than the cap sought by the Bush administration — while increasing actual payments to farmers.” Apparently, Pelosi’s move’s intended “to preserve the re-election prospects of freshman Democrats in rural districts.”
See Siel’s post on ways to let your representatives know that you want to support local farms and make trade fair.
