The Farm Bill

Every five years, Congress passes a bill that disburses almost 100 billion dollars annually. About 75% of the money goes to nutrition assistance programs. The remaining funds should be used to reduce climate impacts from agriculture and grow healthy food. Instead, almost all goes to subsidize agribusiness polluters. Farmers are paid to produce corn and soybeans, which are used as livestock feed (and to make ethanol). These subsidies encourage farming on ecologically sensitive lands and more destructive practices and contribute to the unhealthy American diet. Why? Because agribusiness has a powerful lobby and because few people understand the Farm Bill and our Congresspeople assume we don’t care. 

Please watch this video and have questions ready: https://video.earthxtv.com/shows/law-nature/season/2/episode/1

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Event Date:

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Event Time:

7:00 PM

Zoom Registration:

Click HERE and register for the virtual event

Event Speakers: 

• PETER LEHNER, Managing Attorney Sustainable Food & Farming Earth Justice. Author of Farming for Our Future: The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture

• NYS SENATOR MICHELLE HINCHEY, State Chair of Senate Committee on Agriculture

• CAROL CLEMENT, Farmer/Owner Heather Ridge Farm, Sustainable Meat Producer

• Carolyn Dimitri, Applied Economist & Professor at NYU