Take Action: Support a Better Farm Bill

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June/July 2007
By Willie Nelson, Farm Aid president 
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If you want your grandchildren to inherit a nation with healthy soil, clean water and nutritious food, pick up the phone today and call your representatives in Congress. Tell them you want a farm bill that assists young people who want to start farming; one that restores fairness in the marketplace so family farmers can compete with giant food companies and factory farms; one that puts better food in our schools and rewards farmers who transition to sustainable methods. Let them know you want a farm bill for all, because the farm bill belongs to all of us.

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  • Vines & Cattle 1/27/2009 8:21:08 PM

    Before strengthening the bureaucratic beast, we need to take a note from Joel Salatin and remember to lift the burdensome regulations that do more to stifle small farm dreams than any corporate oligarchy.

    http://vinesandcattle.wordpress.com/

  • Shelly 6/3/2007 1:30:00 AM

    Your June/July 2007 article, "Safe or Sorry?" on distinguishing
    between nature's harmless and harmful look-alikes, reminded me of
    some experiences I've had with potentially harmful creatures.
    Several years ago, upon coming home I found about two dozen wasps
    (so-called yellow jackets) in the front porch alcove by the door.
    It was a tense moment for both the wasps and myself, but I told
    them that I didn't mind them being there if they wouldn't be
    aggressive. I then went inside and hoped they would abide by my
    request. And they did. They lived peacefully on the porch for about
    a month, and then left, for a better living situation, I presumed.
    A few years after that incident, I was eating dinner on the back
    porch when a yellow jacket landed on my plate. I stayed still to
    see what it would do. It walked past the rice over to a kernal of
    corn, wrapped its front legs around the kernal and tried to take
    off. It flapped its wings frantically, but the kernal was too
    heavy. So, it cut the piece of corn in half and then flew off with
    it. I have had a number of similar experiences with other
    "dangerous" animals. The moral of these stories is that under most
    conditions most animals, even so-called aggressive ones, are not
    looking for trouble. Their lives are difficult enough trying to
    find food, shelter, etc. If we (humans) keep our wits about us, and
    learn to observe respectfully, we will find that nature, in all its
    forms, is for the most part not intimidating, but rather endlessly
    fascinating and deeply rewarding.

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