{"id":1375,"date":"2012-06-21T16:37:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2012-06-21T16:37:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:37:26","slug":"new-farm-bill-corporate-farms-organic-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1375","title":{"rendered":"new farm bill; corporate farms; organic growing…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Senate is weighing a bill that would pull some subsidies from farmers, cutting about $5 billion from the Federal Budget annually.\u00a0 The genesis for farm subsidies came during the Great Depression and were safety nets for small farmers to help keep them on the land.\u00a0 Now a good deal of subsidies, under the same law, go to corporate mega-farms.\u00a0 We have traveled extensively looking at farming issues throughout the country over the years.\u00a0 With the pendulum swinging toward more and more of these huge farms, the small family farms are sadly diminishing in kind — as is a way of life that was once the backbone of our country, I told the Country Today News<\/em> in Wisconsin during a previous campaign.\u00a0 Our agricultural policy proposes creating an environment that would make it favorable for the small family farm to make a big comeback.\u00a0 What’s more, we would also push to make it favorable for a return of organic growing, en mass.\u00a0 On a stop at Oberlin College several years ago to meet with David Orr, head of the Environmental Sciences Department there, he said modern toxic farm chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers…) are creating “chemical cocktails” in our systems that are exploding into things like cancer.\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 Statistics show that one in three Americans now get cancer in a lifetime.\u00a0 Common sense says that instead of just “Racing for a Cure;”<\/em> maybe we should be looking at stopping using: THE THINGS THAT CAUSE CANCER IN THE FIRST PLACE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Senate is weighing a bill that would pull some subsidies from farmers, cutting about $5 billion from the Federal Budget annually.\u00a0 The genesis for farm subsidies came during the Great Depression and were safety nets for small farmers to …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}