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The new “family farm”? Now super-sized and industrial. [1]
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Date: 2023-01-04
The below December 12, 2022 complaint provides an example of agribusiness’ ability to avoid environmental requirements while being richly subsidized. Tennessee exempted Tyson Foods’ industrial poultry operations to avoid state environmental and health requirements and both the state and federal farm agencies provided subsidies for Tyson-financed “family farms”. The complaint also alleges deficient federally required environmental reviews. While my Climate Policy Insights article focuses on agribusiness domination of federal USDA subsidies, it appears that agribusiness even finds loopholes in USDA’s family farm programs.
https://sustainablefutures.substack.com/p/agribusiness-evades-participation
BTW- If you are involved in the 2023 Farm Bill update, reducing agriculture’s 12 percent contribution to domestic GHGs, or working to save water quality standards from nonpoint pollution, I recommend you spend 5-minutes going through the compliant. It has all the makings of a movie about a system gone terribly wrong. Feel free to recommend who plays the lead in the agricultural version of Erin Brockovich.
https://www.scribd.com/document/615170629/Southern-Environmental-Law-Center-Challenge
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