A 50-Year Farm Bill
Mon 5 Jan 2009 5:21pm
NY Times January 4, 2009, By WES JACKSON and WENDELL BERRY,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/opinion/05berry.html"Thoughtful farmers and consumers everywhere are already making many necessary changes in the production and marketing of food. But we also need a national agricultural policy that is based upon ecological principles. We need a 50-year farm bill that addresses forthrightly the problems of soil loss and degradation, toxic pollution, fossil-fuel dependency and the destruction of rural communities."