Comments on: New Farm Bill Completed: ‘Like Passing a Kidney Stone’ http://iowaindependent.com/2304/new-farm-bill-completed-like-passing-a-kidney-stone Iowa politics, news, and commentary Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:46:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: corncam http://iowaindependent.com/2304/new-farm-bill-completed-like-passing-a-kidney-stone/comment-page-1#comment-7690 corncam Sat, 10 May 2008 14:37:24 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/2304/new-farm-bill-completed-like-passing-a-kidney-stone#comment-7690 <strong>Farm bill good and bad</strong> This bill has some good points, like the livestock and organic titles, but it also has some serious problems.  For one thing, the payment caps, while laudable, are still far too high.  <p><br>Yesterday, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church USA called for this bill to be vetoed.  Here are her two main points:</p><p><br>1.  First, the legislation leaves intact the deeply unjust American farm-payment system, which has been ruled a violation of international trade law for the manner in which it cripples the ability of farmers in poor countries to sell their products fairly in world markets.</p><p><br>2.  Second, and even more surprisingly, House and Senate negotiators unexpectedly slashed funding for a key program that provides meals for poor school children around the world. Known as the McGovern-Dole International Food-for-Education Program ...  [they cut its funding from $100 M to $84 M per year]</p><p><br>Here's the link  <a href="http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_97018_ENG_HTM.htm">Presiding Bishop urges Farm Bill defeat</a>  (Episcopal Life, May 9, 2008).</p> Farm bill good and bad This bill has some good points, like the livestock and organic titles, but it also has some serious problems.  For one thing, the payment caps, while laudable, are still far too high. 

Yesterday, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church USA called for this bill to be vetoed.  Here are her two main points:

1.  First, the legislation leaves intact the deeply unjust American farm-payment system, which has been ruled a violation of international trade law for the manner in which it cripples the ability of farmers in poor countries to sell their products fairly in world markets.

2.  Second, and even more surprisingly, House and Senate negotiators unexpectedly slashed funding for a key program that provides meals for poor school children around the world. Known as the McGovern-Dole International Food-for-Education Program …  [they cut its funding from $100 M to $84 M per year]

Here's the link  Presiding Bishop urges Farm Bill defeat  (Episcopal Life, May 9, 2008).

]]> By: corncam http://iowaindependent.com/2304/new-farm-bill-completed-like-passing-a-kidney-stone/comment-page-1#comment-5468 corncam Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/2304/new-farm-bill-completed-like-passing-a-kidney-stone#comment-5468 <strong>Farm bill good and bad</strong> This bill has some good points, like the livestock and organic titles, but it also has some serious problems.  For one thing, the payment caps, while laudable, are still far too high.  <p> Yesterday, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church USA called for this bill to be vetoed.  Here are her two main points:<p> 1.  First, the legislation leaves intact the deeply unjust American farm-payment system, which has been ruled a violation of international trade law for the manner in which it cripples the ability of farmers in poor countries to sell their products fairly in world markets.<p> 2.  Second, and even more surprisingly, House and Senate negotiators unexpectedly slashed funding for a key program that provides meals for poor school children around the world. Known as the McGovern-Dole International Food-for-Education Program ...  [they cut its funding from $100 M to $84 M per year]<p> Here's the link  <a href="http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_97018_ENG_HTM.htm">Presiding Bishop urges Farm Bill defeat</a>  (Episcopal Life, May 9, 2008). Farm bill good and bad This bill has some good points, like the livestock and organic titles, but it also has some serious problems.  For one thing, the payment caps, while laudable, are still far too high. 

Yesterday, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church USA called for this bill to be vetoed.  Here are her two main points:

1.  First, the legislation leaves intact the deeply unjust American farm-payment system, which has been ruled a violation of international trade law for the manner in which it cripples the ability of farmers in poor countries to sell their products fairly in world markets.

2.  Second, and even more surprisingly, House and Senate negotiators unexpectedly slashed funding for a key program that provides meals for poor school children around the world. Known as the McGovern-Dole International Food-for-Education Program …  [they cut its funding from $100 M to $84 M per year]

Here’s the link  Presiding Bishop urges Farm Bill defeat  (Episcopal Life, May 9, 2008).

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