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Aired: Monday, July 16, 2007 10-11AM ET
By Tom Ashbrook.
It is Farm Bill time again in Washington.
And once again, American farms and waistlines and economics and trade are all on the line. If you are what you eat, the massive bill being cooked up in Congress right now is fundamental.
It decides what we grow. Its enormous farm subsidies help determine if Twinkies will be cheaper than greens, and Coke cheaper than carrot juice.
Critics want a Farm Bill revolution, for American diets and health and trade. Defenders say be careful you don't wreck the amber waves of grain.
This hour On Point: the Farm Bill on Capitol Hill, and the food in our mouths.
| · | Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee | | · | Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-NC), Chairman of the U.S. House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities | | · | Michael Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and writer for The New York Times Magazine | | · | Philip Brasher, agriculture policy reporter, The Des Moines Register | | · | Jake Caldwell, director of agriculture and trade policy at the Center for American Progress. |
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See Philip Brasher's "Cash Crops" blog for The Des Moines Register |
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Iowa Senator Tom Harkin on the new Farm Bill |
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"You Are What You Grow," by Michael Pollan, The New York Times Magazine, April 22, 2007 |
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"Agriculture's Triple Win," by Jake Caldwell, Center for American Progress |
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"Johanns expresses concern over new House farm bill," (Reuters), The Washington Post, July 12, 2007 |
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