13 Mar 2009
Tag, We’re It

Wonderful op-ed in the Grey Lady on NAIS and why it's so pernicious. I've heard no rumblings out of the new Administration (yet) either way on this, so now's the time to speak up (again, if necessary) and keep speaking up. The alternative is the potential destruction of baseline American agriculture.

The burden for a program that would safeguard agribusiness interests would be disproportionately shouldered by small farmers, rural families and consumers of locally produced food. Worse yet, that burden would force many rural Americans to lose our way of life.

(link) [New York Times]

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