Here is a wonderful (yet sad) editorial from today’s NY Times on what happened in the House with the Farm Bill. The Fairness in Farm and Food Policy Amendment was defeated Thursday night by a vote of 117-309. And the…
Read more »“Franklin Roosevelt is probably turning in his grave as he looks down at the House debate on the Farm Bill. Under the guise of saving the family farm, Democrats and Republicans have turned the farm safety net into a slop…
Read more »The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the 2007 Farm Bill this week, as early as Thursday. The Farm Bill passed by the House Agriculture Committee is not just a continuation of the status quo, but takes our…
Read more »Today’s the ultimate Farm Bill Tuesday. At 9:30 a.m. members of the Religious Working Group on the Farm Bill held a press conference calling on members of the Ag Committee (meeting today at 1:00 p.m.), Speaker Pelosi and other House…
Read more »We are in the third year of the three year Revised Lectionary Cycle, which means we are deep in the Gospel of Luke. There is a lot of food in Luke. From the opening page where the baby Jesus is…
Read more »Huh? Yep. Reducing farm subsidies is a complicated process and the Wall Street Journal gets it right when they compare it to brokering peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict. We need more brave souls to join those in Congress who are…
Read more »Landon Whitsitt is a pastor from Kansas City and a wanna-be gardener . He and his wife, Jerilyn, co-author the blog grow. eat. laugh. love., which chronicles their journey to living a new food lifestyle. This article is cross-posted there….
Read more »The exhaustive study cited in yesterday’s New York Times article deals a potentially crushing blow to the biotech industry – including the purveyors of genetic engineering in agriculture – one that “calls into question the scientific principles on which it…
Read more »You probably know much of the next two paragraphs, but the link between food and, say, classroom behavior is less well-known. Check out the bolded paragraph below and read more from Ode Magazine, which has just updated their website -…
Read more »If we will have the wisdom to survive, to stand like slow growing trees on a ruined place, renewing, enriching it… then a long time after we are dead the lives our lives prepare will live here, their houses strongly…
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