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Urgent: Farm Bill Can Help End Food Crisis
Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: Oxfam America
Sponsored by: Oxfam America
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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Let's be leaders with courage. Let's help those most in need.
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Eliminate subsidies that favor agribusiness overproduction and shift funding programs to help family farmers that practice conservation measures and sustainability.
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Our unsustainable reliance on petroleum powered farm machinery and chemical fertilizers and pesticides in our industrial food production system is now pushing up food prices -- as the price of oil goes off the charts -- which is further acelerated when crops for biofuels replace foodcrops -- all because of our gluttonous refusal to get off the "oil standard." Our out-of-balance food and energy dynamics is making a relative few individuals and megacorporations much more wealthy than they have any need for, leaving everyone else poorer, and the truly poor, hungry. If we really are the Christian nation our leaders are always proclaiming, then we won't be satisfied to enrich a few of us uselessly, while many go hungry all over the world.
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We are in a position to help those less fortunate and we have a moral obligation to do so.
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U.S.: Take the high moral road!!! Farm subsidies have always been ridiculous, but now even more so, considering the state of today's global economies. Support and promote local farming worldwide!!!! Discourage exports that threaten the well-being of developing nations and increase reliance on our food aid. When emergencies arise---whatever country that may be in---make US food aid available, wherever and whenever it is most needed.
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These subsidies to wealthy farmers are unconscionable. Congress must stop giving in to this wealthy special interest. Let's give some of this money to the needy people of the world!
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With commodity prices skyrocketing, why are we spending money we don't have on farm subsidies? This is outrageous plus a national embarassment.
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Buying local is good for everyone, even those in the U.S. who would lose their unfair subsidies and need this "extra encouragement" to apply their efforts to more socially-appropriate farm management.
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Poor people need to be helped because they cannot afford to buy food for their families. With the cost of everything else going up along with the food, if poor families are not helped many will starve to death.
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Our country should follow the proposal made by the Network of Spiritual Progressives who propose a Global Marshall Plan that would devote 5% of our GNP to helping world developement, especially feeding the hungry.
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There are obvious crises to which we must somehow respond, like the political/military disaster in Darfur and the natural disaster (made worse by the nation's military rulers) in Myanmar. But it is also important that, insofar as possible, we encourage local farmers in poor countries to grow food for themselves and not for export.
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We are feeling the food crisis in our own country with the price of wheat rising, bread becoming more expensive and Americans struggling to pay for food. Please be sensible about crops, encourage essential crops and a sensible and efficient use of crops for biodiesel.
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What, do you want to be responsible for millions more starving people?
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Please stop subsidizing the rich and powerful. Instead subsidize local and organic food production.
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I've always been a firm believer that those with more should (and are morally obligated to) give as much as they are able to those with less. It's the only way to ensure the success of the human race. These farmers have more, and should be willing to give up even just a little of what they have to help those with nothing to eat. They won't miss it much, but that little bit would mean the world to people who are starving. When do we, as a species, say 'enough with the egos and selfishness already, lets try to make this world really work' ?
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