I’m addressing graduates of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health at 9:00 a.m. Information is here. It will be streamed online.
by Marion Nestle
Mar
28
2008
The sad saga of farm subsidies
So the Wall Street Journal thinks doing anything about the “thicket of hard-to-cut programs” in the Farm Bill is hopeless. If anything, it looks like subsidies will go up. Reason #1: $80 million worth of agribusiness lobbying last year. Reason #2: this is an election year. If you aren’t up on the ins and outs of Farm Bill politics, this article is a good place to begin. Check out the interactive map and complain! It won’t hurt and it might help at some point.