politics and local farms

[dwights]

Here's a really great NYT article about how the government is effectively stifling local farmer's markets and the local food movement through the farm bill and farm subsidies. It is one thing to be short sighted and stupid and distort competition by throwing money at crops that don't need it, it is an order of magnitude greater sin to actively

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[wildwoosi]

It's really scary how much influence big business has on government. We need a separation of business and state too...