Ah this is a great presentation! Especially when you realize how many members of congress are receiving these benefits. I am still waiting for someone to start a new fad: roto-till suburban front yards and plant a victory garden! Just think how much less pollution or run off from lawn chemicals that would save. Nevermind eating absolutely fresh vegetables without paying all those hiking transportation costs.
@Ms1KIK
10 жыл бұрын
Great to see a lot of positive comments. He's right about organic being lower than industrial agriculture. Seems most of you like the educational enlightenment, & I can't help but suggest watching Netflix (or youtube full episodes) of Food Inc., Farmageddon, and UNTAPPED. My teenager announced her intake changes, why & why I need to accept her stance. After watching those, I have guilt for not paying better attention all these years, & will make changes sooner than later. Buying organic & going Farmers Markets (FYI*some accept Food stamps per videos I mentioned) Bottle water for in home use, STOPS! After research of plastics final stop is in garbage circles of oceans, fish mistaking cancerous plastics for food, &same fish we ingest! Hello! We're killing ourselves slowly, and the Earth. Please watch above mentioned documentaries...please.
@mattpowersmusic
13 жыл бұрын
Ken Cook is an American hero!! We really owe him and the EWG so very much!!
@megalodon4228
5 жыл бұрын
most Big Money goes to big Corporations like Archer Daniels Midland corporation and Big ag companies
@davidfarmer3218
5 жыл бұрын
you should also tell them that farmers are the ONLY business in the united states who are NOT allowed to set prices for what they produce.
@sandybeachey1
13 жыл бұрын
I love the EWG and all the work they do!
@596082
13 жыл бұрын
Wow! I had no idea. Thanks for a great presentation!
@deseretfire6093
8 жыл бұрын
I don't understand the environmentalist's support for organic. Part of the higher cost for organic foods may be due to higher perceived value in the food, but much of the higher cost is due to a greater amount of resources allocated per pound of organic production. Organic food=inefficient resource allocation.
@musads
13 жыл бұрын
Great video, but as an African American I resented the link with food stamps with our race. In truth most food stamps go to whites, and this is a well known fact.
@jannespot
13 жыл бұрын
It's even worse! 90% of all the billions of subsidies go to less than 10% of the farmers who like Dr Ace said are not even involved in real food production
@bctopper
13 жыл бұрын
@tgifur2 I agree with you
@wormsers
13 жыл бұрын
yeah, musads, he made a mistake by showing the African Americans when he was talking about food stamps. We should write him a letter.
@Others1212
11 жыл бұрын
HEY CATLINERS
@bru1015
5 жыл бұрын
Food stamp recipients would do much better if they stopped buying junk food. Real potatoes instead of potato chips. 🙃
@FireweedFarm
11 ай бұрын
Yes, the farm bill is terrible, but he fails to explain the biggest policy problems, or even WHAT a farm bill is supposed to be, (as l long supported by the majority of farmers). He says it's explained as a spending pie, but originally and ideally it's market management, not spending at all. So a minimum wage floor or living wage floor is a standard, not a government check, and if it were the higher standard, much less would be needed for food subsidies. Conservative free market ideology fails for agriculture on both supply (farmer) and demand (consumers & industry) sides, leading to chronic low prices. Congress fixed this with minimum farm price floors for various crops and livestock products, 1942-52. But then Congress reduced them, more and more and more, cheaper and cheaper prices, farmers subsidizing agribusiness/CAFOs, i.e. junk food, export dumping, animal factories. The 1985 farm bill is an example of huge reductions and huge increases in subsidies, but the added reductions were bigger than the added subsidies. By a parity standard, the reductions through 2010 for the subsidized crops were $4 trillion, vs 1/8th of that in subsidies. (With a much lesser standard of fairness, it's still a dramatic reduction and net reduction.) Cook, by default, supports this. So he shows subsidies to farmers, but not subsidies from farmers to agribusiness, (& to consumers, whatever they pass through). Corn market prices were below full costs every year 1981-2005, except 1996, and then again, 2014-2020. His example is from when ethanol put prices briefly above full costs, 2007-13. It didn't last. Corn, wheat, soybeans, cotton, rice, plus subsidies, has long been a lower (combined) percentage of parity, (the traditional standard of a fair price,) than what 45 fruits and vegetables get (not counting any subsidies for them). Though all have gone down a lot. Farming has been so bad for so long that, increasingly, only the richer, (with bigger tax write offs of other income with farm costs,) can afford to do it. Farms now have the most debt ever and extremely low returns on equity and assets (profitability). No subsidies are needed in true farm bill reforms, which make agbiz/CAFOs pay above full costs, as well as the foreign buyers that we've been subsidizing for decades (export dumping). These true reforms of the Commodity Title are bigger for conservation than the Conservation Title, as they end the CAFO subsidies that have led to most farms across a large crop-growing regions to lose all livestock and poultry, to then lose all pasture and hay ground, much needed on hills and near streams. A reformed Commodity Title is also bigger for rural development, organic, trade, local food, credit, etc than those titles and provisions.
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