Federal bill helps huge farmers, not California's innovative ones
An interesting fact I saw in an article:
Federal bill helps huge farmers, not California's innovative ones
Carolyn Lochhead
San Francisco Chronicle Washington Bureau
Sunday, September 23, 2007
"Organic farming has breathtaking potential to improve the environment in ways only dimly understood by the American public and urban lawmakers. If you recycle or drive a Prius, consider this next time you go to a supermarket: One-quarter of California - 27.6 million acres - is farmland, much of it in the heavily polluted San Joaquin Valley. Agriculture covers 40 percent of the land in the United States. How food is grown on that land has big consequences for the air, waterways and wildlife. California now has more than 220,000 acres of certified organic cropland, more than any other state, but still a fraction of the total."
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Federal bill helps huge farmers, not California's innovative ones
Carolyn Lochhead
San Francisco Chronicle Washington Bureau
Sunday, September 23, 2007
"Organic farming has breathtaking potential to improve the environment in ways only dimly understood by the American public and urban lawmakers. If you recycle or drive a Prius, consider this next time you go to a supermarket: One-quarter of California - 27.6 million acres - is farmland, much of it in the heavily polluted San Joaquin Valley. Agriculture covers 40 percent of the land in the United States. How food is grown on that land has big consequences for the air, waterways and wildlife. California now has more than 220,000 acres of certified organic cropland, more than any other state, but still a fraction of the total."
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