While we recognize that the food movement has come a long way in recent years, legislation that directly affects our food—and the local farms we'd ideally like it to come from—is going to be voted on very, very soon. Here's what you can do to help send a sustainable-food-friendly message to Congress about the Farm Bill.
The Farm Bill was established in 1933 to offer aid to farms and ranches in the United States. Every five years, it is reworked; the 2012 Farm Bill has been quietly sent through Congress to be voted on prior to the November 23 deadline.
With our involvement, we can make sure that the Farm Bill helps all of us have greater access to healthy, sustainable food in our communities. In its best form, the Farm Bill could potentially help support local, sustainable, and healthy foods—but only if our lawmakers hear from us!
Read more about the Farm Bill, and follow these steps from the Sustainable Food Center in Austin, Texas, which clearly outline what measures of the bill to support for sustainable farms and also how to contact your representative.
Read more:
• 5 Ways the Farm Bill Will Impact You, Green For All
• The Secret Farm Bill, The New York Times
• Farm Bill 2012: Time For an Overhaul With Innovative Farm Systems, Huffington Post
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Excellent post!
It's free to support farmers.They have many associations that need and deserve your support.Stay informed and lobby for your local farmer.Direct action will do more for the future of farming than any dietary or purchasing change you can make.
Farmers often do supply large business.This is often true.However,they do not directly benefit from your purchasing power at your local super market.You will never put a corporation out of business.They will just change to accommodate your wants.Farmers are very easily put out of farming long before the corporations are.Farms are failing all over North America. Have been for generation now.
Political action is all that's left to save them now.What you buy at the grocery store is so far removed from what the farmer is actually producing.
Farmers feed cities! Wall Street does not.
Make shareholders into sharecroppers!