Take Action: Support Healthy Farms, Healthy Food

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   " Robert Bonnie, Environmental Defense "

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Support Healthy Farms, Healthy Food

 

Take Action: Tell Congress to Support Conservation Friendly Farming

 

Dear friend of sustainable agriculture,

 

Send an email to help promote farm conservation programs.

 

This is it. In the coming days, the US House of Representatives is

scheduled to vote on the 2007 Farm Bill, one of the most important

pieces of conservation legislation that Congress will vote on this

decade.

 

We need your help to urge Congress to support the Fairness in Farm and

Food Policy Amendment that will promote conservation and healthy food

choices.

Send an email to your Member of Congress today:

http://action.environmentaldefense.org/campaign/farmbill_house_action/w7ge6ibr1d\

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America's farmers, ranchers and forest landowners produce an

extraordinary bounty of food, energy and fiber - as well as clean air,

clean water and habitat for wildlife.

 

But, our farm and food policies could do much more to meet the needs of

farmers, consumers, communities, and the environment. In fact, we lose 2

acres of farmland every minute!

 

Current farm policies are misplaced. Taxpayers spend as much as $20

billion annually to subsidize only a few farmers. Crop subsidies

damage the environment by placing pressure on sensitive lands such as

wetlands and native grasslands.

 

The Fairness in Farm and Food Policy Amendment would better reward

farmers for conservation practices, increase assistance to hungry

Americans, provide consumers with more food and energy choices, and stop

sprawl.

 

Take action! Ask your Representative to vote in favor of real reform of

the 2007 Farm Bill when it comes before the US House of Representatives

in the coming days.

 

Thank you,

Robert Bonnie

Co-Director, Land, Water and Wildlife Program

Environmental Defense