Cuts for farm conservation programs and food assistance

Posted on: Sun, 09/11/2005 - 11:39 By: Tom Swiss
Congress has been ordered to cut $3 billion from farm and nutritional programs by the Bush Administration. Of course, they're not thinking of cutting the billions of corporate welfare that flows to agribusiness concerns, but instead planning on cutting farm conservation programs and food assistance for hundreds of thousands of poor people.

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley (R) has proposed an Senate bill 385, an modest amendment to USDA appropriations that would cap federal subsidies to corporate farms at a quarter-million dollars per year and thus leave more funding for protecting hungry people and the land itself. You can write your Senator to support this bill through OCA's website.