![]() ![]() Beyond the obvious-that its agricultural programs are heavily slanted to benefit Big Agriculture-its details defeated me. ![]() At one point, I tried to catalog the hundreds of programs it covers, each with its own set of arcane stipulations and invested lobbyists. From the minute I started preparing the course, I could see that the farm bill was going to be too big, bloated and sprawling for any one human mind to absorb, certainly not mine. With the 2008 farm bill up for renewal, I wanted to know more about it, and professor that I am, I thought: What better way to learn something than to teach it?īig mistake. It had to be one of the most important laws affecting food systems-if you care about such matters, likely the most important. In fall 2011, in an act of what can be described only as hubris, I had the bright idea of teaching a course on the farm bill.įor nearly 25 years, I had been writing and teaching about food politics and policy at New York University, and I knew that the farm bill dictated not only agricultural policy, but also such things as international food aid and feeding the hungry in America. ![]()
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