Reliable Big Ag accomplice Collin Peterson, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, made clear last week that he plans to vote NO on the pending climate bill, after signaling as much this spring. Peterson’s move comes after he extracted lucrative concessions in the bill for Big Ag — concessions that were sold as crucial to securing agriculture’s support for the legislation. It...
read more
The Center For America Progress’s Eric Alterman and Mickey Ehrlich have written an interesting piece on recent legislation and the impact that campaign contributions from well-funded special interests have had on the final shape of critical bills.
One corporate-beholden member of the House of Representatives identified in the story is Minnesota’s Collin Peterson. Alterman and Ehrlich show how...
read more
It’s tough to rattle a scientist’s cage. But Bob Stallman, president of the American Farm Bureau, has found a way by scoffing repeatedly at the biblical calamities that climate change is predicted to bring down on agriculture. Stallman denies that climate change even exists and pounds the denier drum daily to the members of America’s largest agriculture organization.
The Union of...
read more
1. Climate Change will Hammer Agriculture. It’s Already Affecting Common Sense
The damage to agriculture from shifting weather patterns, crippling droughts and devastating floods linked to climate change will seriously challenge our ability to produce food and fiber. Yet the American Farm Bureau Federation, which boasts that American agriculture feeds the world, opposes ground-breaking legislation...
read more
In October, EWG released a report that questioned the misguided claims made by farm lobby organizations and their patrons in Congress who are arguing that climate change legislation would cause devastating increases in the costs of production. Crying Wolf clearly demonstrated that any increases in farmers’ production costs would be minimal and would be lost in the background noise of annual swings in...
read more
