USDA Policy Is Hurting Family Farmers
Factory farms pose a real danger to our communities, our natural resources, and the livelihood of hardworking family farmers. A current USDA program is funneling taxpayer money to fund new and bigger factory farm operations that lead to the gross overproduction of hogs and poultry. So much livestock is being churned out that it has caused a long-term depression of producer prices, forcing family farmers out of business.
The longer the USDA continues this misguided policy, the greater the threat to small farmers who are already being squeezed in this economy.
You can help:
Tell Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to stop using Tax payers money to prop up factory farms.
Along with partner groups Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, Land Stewardship Project, Missouri Rural Crisis Center and Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA, Farm Aid has collected nearly 15,000 signatures to put pressure on Secretary Vilsack in hopes to end this destructive lending and focus USDA resources on helping those who need it most: the family farmers who have been supplying us with healthy, safe food for generations. Please take action and visit: http://bit.ly/ekA8E
Thank you for standing up for family farmers.
by Local Green Circle, October, 2009.
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