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This Holiday Season - Make Trade Fair for Farmers!
Target: President George W. BushSponsored by: Oxfam America
Family farmers around the world are suffering. But we can solve this problem by changing unfair trade policies. Our tax dollars supposedly support family farmers. But, in fact, they're predominantly benefiting a small number of wealthy, industrial-sized farms.
What's more, large government payouts lead to overproduction. Crops are dumped onto the world market and sold for less than the cost of production. That drives prices down, often making it impossible for family farmers in developing countries to make a living and feed their families.
This holiday season, join the tens of thousands of people around the US who are participating in Oxfam's Fast for a World Harvest and take a moment to email President Bush. Call on him to do his part to help end hunger by reforming US farm policy.
What's more, large government payouts lead to overproduction. Crops are dumped onto the world market and sold for less than the cost of production. That drives prices down, often making it impossible for family farmers in developing countries to make a living and feed their families.
This holiday season, join the tens of thousands of people around the US who are participating in Oxfam's Fast for a World Harvest and take a moment to email President Bush. Call on him to do his part to help end hunger by reforming US farm policy.
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The poor need to be taken care of by having fair trade.
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if bush doesn't know already...
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BECAUSE FARMING S A HARD LIFE AND THEY DESERVE BETTER.
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we do not get a fair price for our goods.
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Bush, end your insane preoccupation with trying to make already rich corporations even richer. You obviously never learned that there is such a thing as an average American family trying to get by on $25,000/year.
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FARMERS ARE THE BACK BONE OF THIS COUNTRY AND MUST BE TREATED FAIRLY. SUPPORT FAIR TRADE FOR FARMERS.
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