In frustration over the 2012 Farm Bill, Organic Consumers Association director Ronnie Cummins has joined more than 70 of the nation's food and health leaders to send an open letter to Members of Congress this week, criticizing the bill's plan to give billions of taxpayer dollars in subsidies to corporate mega-farms while slashing food stamps and neglecting healthy food programs. The authors of the letter urged lawmakers to redirect crop insurance subsidy dollars into programs that feed the hungry, protect the environment and promote the consumption of local, organic and healthy food.
The signers support the efforts of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) to amend the bill to cut these outrageous crop insurance subsidies, restore cuts to nutrition programs and redirect $500 million to healthy food programs.
“Let's hope that the draft farm bill voted out of the agriculture committee can be improved on the floor,” said signer Michael Pollan, author of Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual. “Though it contains some important provisions in support of local and healthy food programs, it gives billions in unlimited crop insurance subsidies to commodity growers while doing little to support precisely the kind of diversified, sustainable farms we need. This is not - yet - the healthy food bill the American public has made clear it wants and deserves.”
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