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...budget is dispersed as direct aid to farmers, most of that goes to the largest farmers. Another large chunk goes toward other CAP schemes such as export refunds to large companies, storage outlays and payments to slaughterhouses to offset costs of measures to eradicate BSE, or Mad Cow Disease...
...With the ever-influential Iowa caucuses scheduled earlier than usual (on January 3), and both party's races hot enough to melt the butter cow at the Iowa State Fair, this place will remain full of presidential candidates, from Mitt to Rudy, Hillary to Barack, Huckabee to Edwards, maybe even Dennis (Kucinich) and Ron (Paul), for weeks to come...
...implications were chilling. Since the mid-1990s, the words mad-cow disease had turned beef eaters around the world to tofu tasters as people began to die of the human variant of the disease. Then in 2004 came another disturbing report in the medical journal the Lancet: variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (VCJD), as the illness is properly called, could be spread through blood transfusions. With no way to test for the incurable illness except in the brain samples of the dead, how to ensure the safety of the world's blood supply...
...area collected $3 million in crop aid over the past decade. Craig used that money to snap up more land, expand his feedlot, invest in a nearby ethanol plant and buy gizmos that track his fertilizer and pesticide use and the food and drug intake of every cow. It's no accident that agriculture's productivity growth consistently outpaces the rest of the economy--or that farms with million-dollar revenues are the fastest-growing agricultural sector. "We started with a corn knife and a scoop shovel, and look what's happened," he chuckles...
...also turned paying more into a moral cause no right-thinking chef could argue against: free-range, local, sustainable, organic, hormone-free, heirloom, slow food. As a result, top chefs have had to increase their budgets to find the obscure variety of beet grown only by Shakers or the cow that has been massaged, seen Radiohead live and enjoyed Tantric sex before being slaughtered with love...