Foodfight The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill

Name: Foodfight The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill
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ISBN: 9780970950024

ISBN-10: 0970950020

ISBN-13: 9780970950024

Edition: 2007

Authors: Daniel Imhoff, Michael Pollan, Fred Kirschenmann

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The Farm Bill is perhaps the single most significant land use legislation enacted in the United States, yet many citizens remain unaware of its power and scope. With subsidies ballooning toward $25 billion dollars per year, the Farm Bill largely dictates who grows what crops, on what acreage, and under what conditions--all with major impacts on the country's rural economies, health and nutrition, national security, and biodiversity. As debate and wrangling over the 2007 Farm Bill intensifies,Food Fightoffers a highly informative and visually engaging overview of legislation that literally shapes our food system, our bodies, and our future.

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Watershed Media Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 167
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Michael Pollan is a contributing writer for "The New York Times Magazine" as well as a contributing editor at "Harper's" magazine. He is the author of two prizewinning books: "Second Nature: A Gardener's Education" & "A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder". Pollan lives in Connecticut with his wife & son.



Foreword : don't call it the "Farm Bill," call it the "Food Bill"



Introduction : a food and farm bill for the 21st century




Why the Farm Bill matters



Somewhere in America's heartland ...



Why the Farm Bill matters



What is the Farm Bill?



Promises broken : the two lives of every farm bill ...



Where it all started



Family farms to mega-farms



The Farm Bill's hunger connection



The conservation era begins - again



Freedom to farm and the legacy of record payoffs



Who gets the money?



The multiple benefits of skilled farmers and healthy rural lands



World Trade Organization rulings and the era of green payments



New Zealand : still subsidy-free after all these years



Wedge issues



Wedge issue politics



Hunger, health, and nutrition : changing the policy palette



Energy : farming in an era of fossil fuel scarcity



Healthy lands, healthy people : why farmlands matter to conservation



Turning the tables



Turning the tables


Afterword : somewhere in America's future