{"id":221,"date":"2017-07-02T04:54:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T04:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/?p=221"},"modified":"2017-07-03T16:33:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T16:33:03","slug":"221-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/221-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US Farm Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stantis, Scott. “Of Course There’s Pork.” Birmingham News. Alabama: Birmingham , 2001. Print.<\/p>\n

Because I consider myself politically-inclined, I suppose what stands out to me most from this week’s lesson is the immense scale and scope of corporate agribusiness’ power in our society. For all of the benefits it has brought, and there seem to be many, to be sure, it also carries enormous costs for our environment, health, and culture. Why is it that corn and soy are and have been so heavily subsidized for so long? Who benefits from that arrangement? It is difficult to unravel the complex web of relationships that is our United States Farm Bill, but it seems to me to mirror the intractable political situation we find ourselves in on the national level. Here we have this behemoth that is the food-industrial complex, that we ourselves created, but it is unclear how we got here, what alternatives there might be, or steps that the average citizen can take to address it. I think perhaps the first step would be to gain a greater understanding of the world food system and Michael Pollan’s\u00a0In Defense of Food<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>enables us to do just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stantis, Scott. “Of Course There’s Pork.” Birmingham News. Alabama: Birmingham , 2001. Print. Because I consider myself politically-inclined, I suppose what stands out to me most from this week’s lesson is the immense scale and scope of corporate agribusiness’ power in our society. For all of the benefits it has brought, and there seem to be many, to be sure,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,1],"tags":[91,92,90,88,89,93,94],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-farming","category-uncategorized","tag-agribusiness","tag-corn","tag-corporations","tag-farmbill","tag-indefenseoffood","tag-soy","tag-subsidies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}