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BIG Corporate Agriculture Profits Win Over Food Bank Stocks Drying Up in Wake of Great Drought

BIG Corporate Agriculture Profits Win Over Food Bank Stocks Drying Up in Wake of Great Drought | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it
From www.commondreams.org - November 21, 2012 8:41 PM

November 21, 2012 - Common Dreams

This Is what happens when profits trump feeding the world and the USDA is up to it's neck in complicity with the big corporate agricultural business, biotech industry to ensure they maintain their quarterly bottom-line.  Why is taxpayer money having to pay top market prices for food bank donations?  Thank the food speculation commoditiy markets, taxpayer subsidies to multi-million dollar industrial agriculture and crop insurance paid by your tax dollars to cover losses of industrial agriculture.  One would think they would donate food, able to write it off at market value I suppose.   A really sick game that needs to be exposed.

 

This summer's crop-damaging weather in the U.S. farm belt has driven up costs for everything from grain to beef. That means higher prices at the grocery store, but it also means the U.S. government has less need to buy key staples like meat, peanut butter, rice and canned fruits and vegetables to support agricultural prices and remove surpluses.

Most of the products from those government purchases are sent to US food banks, which then distribute them to food pantries, soup kitchens and emergency shelters that are a lifeline for people who struggle with hunger - including low-income families, senior citizens and people with disabilities.

Government donations—known as bonus commodities—fell by more than half to $352.5 million this fiscal year from $723.7 million three years earlier, according to the US Department of Agriculture.

“Commodities now represent less than 20 percent of our total food volume, a decline of some 150 million pounds. That’s a significant loss of food,” said Ross Fraser, a spokesman for the consortium of the country's food banks, Feeding America... http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/21-5

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ANYTHING FOR A BUCK: Blind, Footless Chickens - CAFOs

From farmwars.info - February 24, 2012 4:58 PM

In an attempt to further industrialize our food supply rather than create actual humane conditions for animals used for meat, there is a new proposal afoot. This new “humane” CAFO method requires rendering the chickens blind by “removing the cerebral cortex of the chicken” so that “its sensory perceptions are removed. READ REST OF STORY:

http://farmwars.info/?p=7897&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FarmWars+%28Farm+Wars%29

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80,000 Chicken farm (CAFO) project has organic farmer worried

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From www.eveningsun.com - September 3, 2012 12:13 AM

These days, Carl Purvenas-Smith worries that his business model is falling apart. The construction of a chicken farm that will house 80,000 birds on a neighboring property has him concerned that he might lose his natural certification.

 

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