December 22nd, 2010
Farm Bill
We have an important opportunity approaching. The Farm Bill is up for reauthorization in 2012, and if we can implement certain changes, we can create a healthy food system for everyone.
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Well, I can’t tell from this website where this “comment” is going, or even if it’s still relevant (only date shows 12/22/10. However, on the possibility that it IS relevant, here goes:
Factory farms were created and are sustained by the laws enacted by our Congress, which unfairly and consistently rewards “bigger is better” agricultural policies. What these laws have produced is a real horror for the family farmer, rancher, consumer, animals, and environment of our country.
I live in California’s central valley, home to Big Dairy. When the wind is blowing just right, one can’t even go outside because the stench is so bad. The conditions in which the cows are living are deplorable. The same is true for beef feedlots, pig “factories”, and poultry “farms”.
The mega producers (Cargill, ConAgra, Tyson we know who you are) receive billions in USDA subsidies, making millions (billions?) in profits, while shifting the expense and risk to their suppliers. Ask any poultry “farmer” what life is like under the feudal agricultural system in this country. Ask anyone living in Texas’ Panhandle what life is like in these pork-supply regions. Use your imagination and ask a pig “unit” what life is like in these factories of misery and death.
All engineered and sustained by our federal government. TELL YOUR Congressmen you do not support these VILE policies. STOP the subsidies to mega-producers — they are destroying our food supply, our animals, and our environment.
Factory farming has to stop! Its unhealthy for our planet, our bodies, and the animals. I’m appalled at humanity for allowing this to happen.
Trevor and Candice,
While we disagree on most of what you’ve said, I can accept that as a difference of opinion and go on. But I must ask for your reference to the billions of USDA subsidy dollars you speak of to the large food companies. Please show me the fact sheet, webpage etc that substantiates that claim.