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...made the decision to abandon the controversial source of funding in 2005, but chose to make the decision public in an article in the International Herald Tribute on Wednesday in order to make a stand as Congress debates an overhaul of its food aid program in a new farm bill this summer...
...Responding to these criticisms, the Bush administration has called for one quarter of the food aid budget be shifted from commodities to cash, but the fate of any change to the U.S. food aid program lies with Congress, which is currently debating a new farm bill. And it is unlikely that other charities in the cash-strapped world of NGOs will follow CARE's lead and boycott a flawed but important form of government funding. Save the Children USA, which along with CARE is a major recipient of monetized food aid, called food aid a "vital resource," but added that...
...Whole Foods can’t emulate a CSA model,” he says. “With the CSA model, people join a farm, they have a very direct, personal relationship with the farm. It’s great that there’s a corporate trend towards organics because anything that poisons the earth less, that’s a good thing. As far as building a relationship to the earth, the weather, and the land and the farmer, that’s not going to happen with Whole Foods...
...desire to express his passions for the arts and nature became evident early on in his life. After his father’s early death from diabetes, John took over the family farm and he brought the hippie movement from college to the fields—quite literally. The students’ reputation for Bacchalian parties jarred John’s conservative neighbors, who would later associate the farm with devil worshipping and animal sacrifice...
However, most of John’s grief would come from a much more widespread development: like many Midwest farmers in the 80s, John faced financial hardship and was forced to sell most of the farm and its equipment as larger companies took over most of America’s farming needs. A decade later, however, he was able to make a surprising comeback as a pioneer of organic farming with the assistance of the Community Support Agriculture, and transform the former family farm into a volunteer-driven community farm specializing in organic products...