WASHINGTON – The Senate Agriculture Committee, chaired by John Boozman (R-Ark.), on July 31 released an updated farm bill proposal.
The following is a statement from the Environmental Working Group’s Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Scott Faber:
No one should support a farm bill that fails to support family farmers, feed hungry children, support farmers adopting regenerative practices or build healthy diets.
The farm bill released Friday night by Sen. Boozman fails on all four accounts by failing to close loopholes that tilt the playing field against small farms, by failing to restore the cuts to SNAP that have left more than 1 million children without anti-hunger assistance and by failing to reverse a $2 billion cut to popular farm stewardship programs.
We need farm and food policies that support healthy diets, the people who feed us, the hungry and our environment, not a farm bill for the 1%.
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