People are going hungry in the USA and in the world while American taxpayers subsidize some farmers who earn over $250,000 a year, some farmers who don’t farm anything at all, give disaster relief to some farmers who suffered no disaster damage, subsidize some farmers who convert food crops to fuel crops, and give price supports to some farmers at a time when price supports are not needed. Farm supports should be a safety net to protect our food supply, not a way of stashing cash and manipulating markets.

What needs to be done isn’t radical. Just reduce the waste in the farm bill and and take some of that money to increase food stamps allotment so that people who need food stamps can eat for an entire month and not just 3 weeks. Hungry children don’t developed normally and don’t learn as well as adequately nourished children do.

This is a moral cause worth fighting for.  To learn more, go to http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04112008/profile.html