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Wilson: EWG’s Ken Cook Debates Former Ag Chair Larry Combest, Loses
Blog Post, March, 17 2013
Brad Wilson
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This blog examines 2, contrasting policy columns form the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, as a substitute for an in-person Farm Bill debate between Ken Cook of the Environmental Working Group and former House Ag Chairman (Republican, Texas,) ...
Wilson: Don’t Grow Clover, Hay, Oats, (Corn)? De-Bunking a Farmer Bashing Myth
Blog Post, March, 11 2013
Brad Wilson
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The claim that farmers should only grow food crops is a dangerous myth that mistakenly got added into discussions about farm and food justice. The origin and consequences of this myth are explained.
Wilson: Bread Crumbs for the World: The Failure of Hunger and Church Groups to Support Farm Justice
Blog Post, March, 05 2013
Brad Wilson
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During the 1980s Farm Crisis Churches listened to farmers and made major commitments to the Farm Justice (Family Farm) Movement. Twenty years later, those commitments were largely forgotten as churches and hunger groups, (often religious in nature...
Wilson: Commodity Crops Vs. Vegetables? Data Slides Fix the Myth
Blog Post, January, 29 2013
Brad Wilson
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Are Commodity Crops privileged, while Vegetable Crops are penalized by the Farm Bill? Is Corn a Farm Bill “King,” while Tomatoes and Spinach are paupers? What does the data show? This blog is a brief introduction to 9 new data slides showing Pr...
Wilson: Smashing the Illusion 'Farmer Clout:' A White Paper
Blog Post, January, 08 2013
Brad Wilson
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There's been talk recently of "farm" clout, as if farmers have had clout for their interests through their "farm state" Senate and House Agriculture Committee representatives. In fact, however, the farm bill has increasingly hurt authentic "farm"...
Wilson: 2013 Food Movement Resolution: Stop Supporting AgBiz in Farm Bill!
Blog Post, January, 03 2013
Brad Wilson
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It's the time for New Years Resolutions and I propose one for the Food Movement, especially for its leaders: Stop supporting agribusiness in the biggest issue of the farm bill! The Food Movement has long taken a very strong stand against this, i...
Wilson: Farm Bill Economics: Think Ecology
Blog Post, January, 03 2013
Brad Wilson
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The industrial model of agriculture that we get from pesticide companies is the cookbook method, where you choose individual poisons to kill individual pests or pest groups, without regard for the ecology of agriculture. By analogy, that is much ...
Wilson: Duped by Chicken Little’s ‘Dairy Cliff?’ That’s Your Brain on Agribusiness
Blog Post, December, 24 2012
Brad Wilson
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The latest spin from the giant dairy processors is that consumers face a "dairy cliff" where the farm bill will rip them off. In fact, however, agribusiness, (and through them consumers getting whatever's left over) have been massively subsidized...
Wilson: Useful: Flawed Food Score Card
Blog Post, October, 29 2012
Brad Wilson
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Food Policy Action's "Food Policy Scorecard" is a helpful tool for informing voters of how to vote. I'm glad to see it come out prior to the election. On the other hand, it contains major flaws, the same ones that are widespread in the Food Movem...
Wilson: Oxfam on Corn/Climate/Hunger: One-Horned Analysis Lacks Farm Bill Macro Solutions
Blog Post, September, 06 2012
Brad Wilson
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This provides context for understanding hunger and farm prices, and gives policy solutions. Few online articles and reports, including those of Oxfam, which is the focuse of the critique here, adequately address the full context of savage dilemma...
Wilson: Farm Bill: Turn Back? Take Back the Clock!
Blog Post, September, 03 2012
Brad Wilson
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I wrote the op-ed on how "Congress should Take Back the Farm Bill clock, a rebuttal to a mainstream media article: “Farm bill inaction could turn clock back to 1949.” Overall, there were too many flaws in the original article and arguments agains...
Wilson: Family Farm Diabetes: Foodies, Farm Justice “Allies” and "The Big Hog"
Blog Post, August, 30 2012
Brad Wilson
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One of the symptoms of diabetes, which we hear so much about these days, as a consequence of the food crisis, is that people lose their limbs, which must then be cut off. First it may be just a toe, then a foot, then the lower leg, then the whole ...
Wilson: Flawed Food History: Farm Justice Missing from Timeline
Blog Post, August, 18 2012
Brad Wilson
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A Food Movement Timeline is a great idea, but it should include the farm side of food justice. This one misses most of that, which is related to the failure of the food movement to adequately advocate for US and global farm justice.
Wilson: Food Dialogue Fails: Firetrucks (Subsidies) Don’t Cause Fires (of Injustice)
Blog Post, August, 15 2012
Brad Wilson
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Farmers have been excluded from food movement dialogues. This has led the food movement to failed advocacy, where food movement “principles” lead to advocacy that directly violates those principles. Here’s the story. This blog summarizes a longer...
Wilson: Bittman Bashing Butter: And Beyond: A Re-Buttal
Blog Post, August, 13 2012
Brad Wilson
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Mark Bittman unfairly bashes milk, with little regard for the dairy crisis, the most acute farm injustice in the farm bill. In part he supports the Transfat-AgBiz-Complex, as does mainstream media. I provide alternative views to part of Bittman's...
Wilson: Eight Myths Block Dairy Farm Justice
Blog Post, August, 08 2012
Brad Wilson
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Dairy farmers have been in acute crisis through the 2008 and 2012 farm bills. This is the most acute farm bill injustice of our time. The Food Movement has failed to see these injustices, and advocate for just solutions. The leaders of this move...
Wilson: The Hidden Farm Bill: Secret Trillions for Agribusiness
Blog Post, July, 16 2012
Brad Wilson
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Mainstream media, progressives, conservatives, legislative agriculture committees, and government agencies all mislead people about the farm bill, by focusing on what I call the VISIBLE Farm Bill, and by ignoring the much bigger key part of the fa...
Wilson: Slides: The Dairy Crisis and the Farm Bill
Blog Post, June, 14 2012
Brad Wilson
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This is a short, pictorial analysis of the dairy crisis in relation to the farm bill. It's quick and gets right to the point. It links to 20 "Dairy Crisis Slides" (or Dairy Policy Slides). It illustrates larger farm bill issues, like farm subsi...
Wilson: Bust the Agribusiness Trust
Blog Post, May, 13 2012
Brad Wilson
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USDA and DOJ held antitrust hearings around the nation. The results are poor. Congress gutted the proposed revisions. We must call for the Obama Administration and Congress to support the 11 antitrust measures that were recently excluded by Con...
Wilson: Talking Points for the 2012 Farm Bill
Blog Post, May, 13 2012
Brad Wilson
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The Farm Bill is being written right now. The biggest issues of economic justice are those of the Commodity Title. This blog contains some key talking points to address the biggest injustices and the most common misunderstandings of the farm bill.
