Saturday, January 14, 2012

The Farm Bill is a Climate Bill

Click here to access article by Donald Carr from Civil Eats. 
...one thing they’ve all agreed to cut is 7 million acres from the Conservation Reserve Program.
Political operatives for corporate agriculture couldn't care less about global warming. They are employed to deliver the drug of choice to the ruling One Percent--profits.
The Environmental Protection Agency says that this amount of carbon is equivalent to the annual emissions of 2 million passenger vehicles. All that stored carbon will be sent back into the atmosphere if those 7 million acres are plowed under to plant more industrial-scale corn for ethanol and livestock feed.