Roughly every five years, Congress passes legislation known as the Farm Bill, a nearly trillion-dollar package of investments
that touches all of our lives, every day. It determines who US farmers and farm workers are, what they grow, how they grow it, who can afford it, and who profits from it, and with each cycle, there’s an opportunity to reimagine the system for the better. But in reality, over my whole lifetime, Congress has passed one farm bill after another creating and fundamentally reinforcing an inequitable, unsustainable, and unhealthy food and farm system.
Now, more than 150 organizations representing tens of millions of people across this country are saying: Enough.today, these organizations — spanning expertise in nutrition, farming, rural development, racial equity, labor, and climate change, and including the Union of Concerned Scientists — are asking the president to join our call for Congress to pass a Farm Bill that will transform our food and farming system.
When President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act last month, it was a historic step towards making the
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