"For the Farm Lobby, Too Much Is Never Enough"
Written by Bruce Goldstein Friday, 26 June 2009 07:48
Washington Post financial columnist Steven Pearlstein discusses the agribusiness success in obtaining more subsidies through the climate-control cap-and-trade program that Congress is planning to enact to reduce environmental harm to the planet. Despite this success, the Farm Bureau urged members of Congress to defeat the bill. The Los Angeles Times agrees in an editorial about the inordinate power that leads to "the theory that heading off global catastrophe is only worthwhile if agribusiness can profit from it."
Another example of the excesses of the "greedy growers," as former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson used to say. We poison the environment and our farmworkers and agribusiness continues to lobby for the ability to continue to do so, while getting paid subsidies not to do so.
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