Tag: agriculture
Follow Sustainable Agriculture
by director on Mar.09, 2009, under Ecology, Horticulture
It can be challenging for an outsider to try to understand the issues related to national agricultural policy. We all eat, and we all buy food, but very few of us understand what goes into the production of our food. Yet, food issues are near the core of both economic and environmental policy.
Let me suggest a place where you can begin to review what’s happening in the countercurrent to industrialized agriculture. A union of the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition provides weekly updates on the most controversial corners of agricultural policy.
Currently, that involves a deadline to comments on changes to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program from the 2008 Farm Bill, and issues related to the Omnibus Appropriations Act, currently moving through the U.S. Senate. Go on and take a look.
Opposition to Vilsack Simmers Under Placid Obama Narrative Surface
by director on Jan.27, 2009, under Horticulture
President Obama seems to have had some pretty smooth sailing in his first week as President of the United States, but there are some strong counter-currents flowing underneath the ship of state, and those currents may surface and contribute to a political tsunami if the conditions are right. One of these counter-currents threatening the Obama Administration comes from Agriculture.
Barack Obama picked an establishment Secretary of Agriculture in Tom Vilsack. Vilsack represents the same old way of doing Agriculture that has failed America over the last generation, hardly the change that Obama promised.
For a quick read on this subject, take a look at the six reasons having Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture is not a good idea.
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