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Farm Subsidies

Taking On Agriculture to Reduce Obesity And Hunger: Derek Yach

Riva Greenberg | Posted 03.27.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Health Care Reform, Hunger, Diabetes, Diet, Obesity, Health Care, Food Policy, Agriculture, Subsidies, Farm Subsidies, Personal Health, Healthy Living News
Riva Greenberg

Derek Yach's mission is to help address global challenges such as hunger and obesity, and the ills they cause, by finding ways for PepsiCo to be a part of the solution.

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'Green News Report' - January 3, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.04.2012 | Green
Read More: Lisa Jackson, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Power Plants, Innovation, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Offshore Drilling, Drought, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Conservatives, Fossil Fuels, Corporate Media, Big Oil, Climate Science, Africa, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Genetically Modified Foods, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Toxic Water, Gmos, Factory Farming, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalism, State Department, Toxic Chemicals, Energy Efficiency, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Water, Keystone XL Pipeline, Famine, Mercury, Green News, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, China, Fracking, Iran, Food Politics, Farm Subsidies, Farming, Subsidies, Food, Hydraulic Fracturing, Food Prices, Video, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: We're bac...

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Lynne Peeples

Farming With The Grain, Or Against It: The 2012 Farm Bill And Climate Change

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.13.2011 | Green
Read More: Pesticides, Farm Bill, 2012 Farm Bill, Crop Insurance, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Climate Change, Farm Subsidies, Water Scarcity, Green News

It wasn't a hurricane that devastated Mark Doyle's apples this year. Rather, an unusually cold and wet spring in the Northeast had already done enough...

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Lynne Peeples

Does The Farm Bill Need A Diet And Make-Over?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.07.2011 | Green
Read More: Farm Bill, Farm Bill 2012, Farming, Video, Food Stamps, School Lunches, Farm Subsidies, Obesity, Snap, Childhood Obesity, Green News

A cartoon consumer appears happy and healthy, eating a meal of fresh carrots, corn and chicken as the calendar cycles through the 1950s, '60s and '70s...

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What the Food Movement Can Learn From OWS This Thanksgiving

Carla Wise | Posted 01.21.2012 | Green
Read More: Local Food, Food Politics, Food Occupy Protests, Thanksgiving Food Costs, Occupy Movement Food, Corporate Deregulation, Food Movement, Food Costs, Farm Subsidies, Green News
Carla Wise

While OWS protesters may focus on Bank of America and Chase, it is the corporate giants of food and agriculture, such as Monsanto, Nestle and ADM that are the 1% in the food world.

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Why the Farm Bill Matters

Maria Rodale | Posted 01.15.2012 | Green
Read More: Maria Rodale's Blog, New Farm Bill, Just Food NYC, Farm Subsidies, The Farm Bill, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Just Food, 2012 Farm Bill, Green News
Maria Rodale

by guest blogger Amy Blankstein of Just Food, a non-profit that turns "food deserts" (i.e., neighborhoods underserved by supermarkets and other food ...

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Six Ways To Help
End Big Farm Handouts

Maria Rodale | Posted 01.08.2012 | Green
Read More: Maria Rodale, Thomas M. Kostigen, Farm Bill, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Farm Subsidies, Factory Farms, 2012 Farm Bill, Green News
Maria Rodale

by guest blogger Thomas M. Kostigen, expert on social responsibility and environmental issues. Want to eat more healthfully? Tell your representati...

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Can We Change Where Our Food Comes From?

The New York Times | Posted 01.03.2012 | Green
Read More: Farm Bill, Local Food, Agriculture, Agricultural Policy, Food, Farm Subsidies, u.s. Farming, Industrial Farming, Industrial Agriculture, Green News

I’m not a jingoist, but I’d prefer that more of my food came from America. It’d be even better, really, if most of it came from within a few hun...

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The Farm Bill Is a Food Bill

Rajiv Narayan | Posted 12.20.2011 | Politics
Read More: Farm Bill, Michael Pollan, Super Committee, Health Policy, Food Stamps, Nutrition, Agriculture, Food Politics, Food, Usda, Farm Subsidies, Food Prices, Obesity, Politics News
Rajiv Narayan

Where the farm bill allocates resources to funding food stamps, it also incentivizes the purchase of unhealthy foods.

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Eco Etiquette: My Friend Feeds Her Toddler Junk Food

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 11.27.2011 | Green
Read More: Processed Food, Food Movement, Adhd, Artificial Food Dye, Green Advice, Dr. Greene, Junk Food Subsidies, Eco Etiquette, Childhood Obesity, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Green Living, Diabetes, Childhood Nutrition, Farm Subsidies, Junk Food, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. My good friend and I have...

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BIllions Of Taxerpayer Dollars Keep Junk Food Cheap, Study Finds

Posted 11.22.2011 | Home
Read More: Farm Bill, Junk Food, Video, 2012 Farm Bill, Junk Food Subsidies, Public Health, Farm Subsidies, Usda, Slidepollajax, Home News

It's a well known fact that most farm subsidies go to crops, like feed corn, that aren't exactly healthy. They're crops that are easy to grown en mass...

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House Leadership Supported Massive Giveaways to Big Ag while Taking a Chainsaw to Nutrition & Food Safety

Elizabeth Kucinich | Posted 09.04.2011 | Politics
Read More: Congress, Food Stamps, Health Care Costs, Appropriations, Subsidies, E. Coli, Childhood Obesity, Agricultural Subsidies, Farm Bill, Hunger, Health, Food, Food Safety, Farm Subsidies, Medical Costs, Diabetes, Tea Party, Children's Health, Politics News
Elizabeth Kucinich

The last thing our country needs is a taxpayer-funded subsidy system that favors the very foods that contribute to heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. But that's exactly what key members in the House are standing behind.

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Republicans Vote To Cut Food Aid To Women, Children

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 08.16.2011 | Politics
Read More: Senate Wic Vote, Food Aid Cuts, Wic, Wic Vote, Senate Farm Subsidies, Senate Food Aid, WIC Cuts, Senate Food Aid Vote, Senate Wic, Women Infants Children, Food Aid Vote, Farm Subsidies Vote, Food Aid Gop, Food Aid, Farm Subsidies, Gop Food Aid, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Republican-led House voted to slash domestic and international food aid Thursday while rejecting cuts to farm subsidies. A spending...

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Republicans Slash Food Aid For Low-Income Women And Children, But Dodge Farm Subsidy Cuts

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 08.15.2011 | Politics
Read More: Agriculture Appropriations Bill, Women Infants Children, Republicans Food Ain Women Children, Republicans Farm Subsidies, Food Aid, Farm Subsidies, Agriculture, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Republicans have quietly maneuvered to prevent a House spending bill from chipping away at federal farm subsidies, instead forging ahead...

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House Committee Votes To Cut Farm Subsidies

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 07.31.2011 | Politics
Read More: House Appropriations Committee, Farm Subsidy, World Trade Organization, Brazil, Cotton, Gop, Farm Subsidies, Jeff Flake, Arizona, House Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A House committee voted Tuesday to cut farm subsidies to pay for deficit reduction and other budget priorities, chipping away at the bil...

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Agricultural Policy Should Fuel Health, Not Epidemics!

Elizabeth Kucinich | Posted 07.24.2011 | Politics
Read More: American Heart Association, Fast Food, Congress, USDA Nutrition Programs, Type 2 Diabetes, Health Care Costs, Agriculture, USDA Policy, Subsidies, Agriculture Reform, Elizabeth Kucinich, Federal Budget, Agricultural Subsidies, Farm Bill, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 2012 Farm Bill, House Agriculture Committee, Federal Budget Deficit, Prevention, Health, Food Politics, Agriculture Subsidies, Food, Usda, Pcrm, Medical Costs, Diabetes, Farm Subsidies, Heart Disease, Diabetes Prevention, Vegetarian, Vegan, Agribusiness, Veganism, Fruit, Industrial Agriculture, Meat, House Appropriations Committee, Preventative Healthcare, Food Policy Agenda, Appropriations, Death, Doctors, Cholesterol, Healthy Diet, Diet, Healthy Eating, Unhealthy Diets, Hal Rogers, Obesity, Politics News
Elizabeth Kucinich

In 2009, USDA spent more than twice as much buying meat and dairy as it did on fruits and vegetables. What that means is that the USDA used taxpayers' money to buy about $1.5 billion worth of meat and dairy.

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Farm Subsidies: A Useful Sacrifice in the Budget Debate

Patrick Sharma | Posted 07.12.2011 | Politics
Read More: Agribusiness, Farm Subsidies, Federal Deficit, Budget, Agriculture, Agricultural Policy, Politics News
Patrick Sharma

Since being introduced to help cope with the Great Depression, farm subsidies have devolved into a hodgepodge of price supports, direct payments, insurance programs, tax loopholes and low-interest loans for wealthy farmers and agribusiness.

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How Do Wrong Economic Ideas Become Conventional Wisdom?

Peter Dreier | Posted 07.09.2011 | Books
Read More: New York Times Book Review, Tea Party, Labor Unions, Fracis Fukuyama, John Boehner, Darrell Issa, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Friedrich Hayek, Rent Control, Glenn Beck, Farm Subsidies, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, Books News
Peter Dreier

If conservatives don't like labor unions, they are entitled to their opinions. But when they attack unions by arguing that they actually hurt working people, they don't have the facts on their side. They are crying wolf.

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Prince Charles Champions Organic Farming, Criticizes Ag Subsidies In DC Speech

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 07.04.2011 | Home
Read More: Prince Charles Speech, Organic Farming, Prince Charles DC, Prince Charles, Prince Charles Organic Farming, Agriculture, Big Ag, Sustainable Agriculture, Prince Charles Climate Change, Farm Subsidies, Prince Charles Food, Home News

WASHINGTON -- Prince Charles is in Washington talking about environmentally friendly farming, and he says it's a change from giving royal wedding toas...

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How Agriculture Subsidies Are Making Us Sick

Elizabeth Kucinich | Posted 06.21.2011 | Home
Read More: Taxes, Bill Clinton, Cholesterol, Congress, Sustainable Food, Personal Health, Health Care Costs, Vegan, Obesity, Childhood Obesity, Farm Bill, Mike Tyson, Government-Subsidies, Food Access, Russell Simmons, Food Politics, Neal Barnard, Heart Disease, Farm Subsidies, Food Prices, Kathy Freston, Home News
Elizabeth Kucinich

When it comes to unhealthy food, the primary culprits are meat and dairy, which are high in saturated fat and cholesterol, and over-sweetened processed food.

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Watching the Future Wash Away

Donald Carr | Posted 06.13.2011 | Green
Read More: Farming, Soil, Toxic, Run Off, Corn, Agriculture, Dead Zone, Conservation, Erosion, Chemicals, Corn Belt, Commodity Crop, Farm, Water, Agribusiness, Soybeans, Farm Subsidies, Usda, Farm Bill, Crp, Eqip, Green News
Donald Carr

Bad federal policy and intensifying storms are washing away the rich dark soils in the Midwest that made this country an agricultural powerhouse and that remain the essential foundation of a healthy and sustainable food system in the future.

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WATCH: Soil Erosion Far Worse Than Reported In American Farmlands

The Huffington Post | Joanna Zelman | Posted 06.12.2011 | Green
Read More: Farming, Farming Practices, EWG Losing Ground, Losing Ground Report, Erosion, Farm Practices, Environmental Working Group, Erosion Statistics, Farm Taxes, Soil Erosion, Environment, Ewg, Erosion Subsidies, Farm Erosion, Farm Subsidies, Video, Green News

If the American classic song is right and “this land was made for you and me,” then why are we paying to have it destroyed? This is the question p...

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Green News Report: April 5, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.05.2011 | Green
Read More: Co2, Natural Disasters, Fracking, Epa, Clean Energy, Coal, Chernobyl, Radioactivity, Iaea, Climate Change Denial, Green Party, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Fukushima, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Toxic Chemicals, Pennsylvania, Japan Earthquake, Sustainability, Natural Gas, Japan, BP Oil Spill, United Nations, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Nuclear, Pollution, Electricity, Fossil Fuels, Contamination, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Waste, Gop, Climate Change, Air Pollution, Global Warming Deniers, Bp, Subsidies, Energy Efficiency, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Waste Management, Green News, Hydraulic Fracturing, Toxic Waste, House of Representatives, Green Business, Don Blankenship, Tennessee, Deepwater Horizon, Paul Krugman, Farm Subsidies, Sewage, Massey Energy, Perchlorate, Bats, Utilities, Transocean, Executive Compensation, Upper Big Branch Mine, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Breaking:...

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Friday Talking Points [161] -- April Fools

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.01.2011 | Politics
Read More: White House, April Fools, Tea Party, Debate, President Obama, Schoolhouse Rock, Obama, Democratic, Im Just a Bill, Friday Talking Points, Sarah Palin, Presidential Candidate, 2012, Republican, Kinetic Military Action, Montana, Midotw, Law of the Land, Domestic Goddess, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Farm Subsidies, Ben Quayle, South Park, John McCain, House, Haley Barbour, Gaddafi, Terrorism, War, Rick Santorum, Terrorist, Democrat, Congress, Lindsey Graham, Newt Gingrich, Dui, Democrats, Barack Obama, Tea Party Republican, Transparency, Michele Bachmann, Constitution, Mddotw, Chris Weigant, Herman Cain, Donald Trump, Hypocrisy, Transparency Award, Libya, Senate, Ghaddafi, Kma, Socialist, Fox News, Politics News
Chris Weigant

To clarify that title: when you pull a prank on this particular day, you're supposed to reveal yourself as the prankster by yelling "April Fools!" (or...

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Marcus Baram

Almost Two Dozen Members Of Congress Get Farm Subsidies

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 06.04.2011 | Politics
Read More: Congress Farm Subsidies, Thewatchdog, Obama Regulations, Regulations, Watchdog Blog, Farm Subsidies, Regulation Watchdog, Politics News

Welcome to "The Watchdog," which will keep a close eye on regulatory agencies and how their actions impact the lives of everyday Americans. Though the...

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