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Urgent: Farm Bill Can Help End Food Crisis
Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: Oxfam America
Sponsored by: Oxfam America
BREAKING NEWS, 16 MAY 2008: The Farm Bill has now passed both in the House and Senate. Thank you to everyone spoke out on this issue.
The world is faced with a global food crisis. The prices of wheat, rice, and maize are skyrocketing.
Don't let Congress pass up a major opportunity to help address the food crisis by shifting payments for wealthy farmers to desperately needed funding to help the hungry around the world. Congress is in final negotiations on the Farm Bill and this legislation could make a difference. Some farmers making up to a million dollars a year receive support from the farm bill, but the poor affected by the food crisis do not. Does that sound right to you?
The farm bill could come to a final vote as early as Wednesday, May 14. Your urgent action is required!
Even a small cut in subsidies to rich farmers could provide funds to help millions who are hungry. Poor people around the world cannot wait any longer. Please tell Congress to address the food crisis today.
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Practically every credible economist (regardless of political persuasion) in this country has denounced U.S. agricultural subsidies as wasteful government spending at its worst, funneling billions of dollars to, by and large, rich corporate farmers, distorting markets, and hurting poor farmers not only in this country but all around the world. And yet, year after year they continue. For many of us, this is a real litmus test for gauging the seriousness of our Congress. Please, this is a chance to do some good with a significant amount of money.
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Show the poor around the world that the rich members of our US Congress are willing to demonstrate at least as much willingness to help them as your willingness to continue supporting the unending destruction of human life in Iraq, a country which has never attacked the US.
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No human should have to go hungry.
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We can either spend less money to put food in hungery bellies and give folks the tools to help themselves or spend more to defend ourselves when they comes at us hungery,mad and just trying to care for their loved loves--like us.
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Because we CAN.
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Food and agricultural assistance from the United States can fight terrorism more readily than the military
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The world doesn't belong to only the rich; to share is why we are here. Most Americans are over weight or obese, we don't need so much food...share it. Thanks.
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I LIVE IN THE US-WORKED ALL MY LIFE GOT DISABLED AND TRY TO EAT (NO, NOT HEALTHY) I GET $100.00 A MONTH, ITS DAMN HARD TO SURVIVE. CAN YOU EVEN TRY TO IMAGINE HOW POORER THAN WE IN THE US (I LIVE OVER 300% BELOW POVERTY RATE) THEY SURE CAN NOT EAT. HOW ABOUT GETTING REALISTIC? HELP US AND THE OTHERS.....