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...sprawling corn fields in the Midwest do not magically disappear. Neither do nitrates from chemical fertilizers. They linger in the soil, and then seep into the water supply. Costs of treating water for just these byproducts are estimated at $300 million annually. And it is the consumer, not the farmer, who picks up the tab through higher water bills...
...water is only half the story. Conventional farmers can neglect nutrient availability by saturating depleted soils with chemical fertilizers. Dependence on chemical fertilizers imperils long-term food production because the soil’s natural nutrients gradually disappear. It’s like giving someone a respirator instead of clean natural air. Organic farming avoids this because “the organic farmer has more of an incentive to focus on soil nutrients [through crop rotation],” according to Michael Duffy, an agricultural economist at Iowa State University...
...Some Republican activists, however, think Perry's woes are less indicative of the national scene, than his own background - as a former Texas rural Democrat. "He's a farmer from Haskell. Pragmatically, he is a conservative Democrat," says former Texas G.O.P. political director Royal Massett. "They don't see him as John Connally with that charisma, or Lyndon Johnson with his sense of get it done." But what Perry loses from the corporate Republican crowd in Dallas and Houston, he gains in the heavily Hispanic Rio Grande Valley and in rural areas. While his TV ads stress border security...
Deadria C. Farmer-Paellmann, a reparations activist who filed suit in 2002 against companies she alleges profited from slavery, claims in her suit that “money from the slave trade financed Yale University’s first endowed professorship, its first endowed scholarship, and its first endowed library fund...
...Local farmers joined their counterparts from Africa and South America to advocate for fair trade last night at Emerson Hall. Students sampled the farmers’ fair-trade products, including apples, lettuce, and chocolate-covered bananas, at the event, which was sponsored by five student groups, including the Student Labor Action Movement and Oke USA, a cooperative farmers organization. After a lobbying campaign from the Harvard Fair Trade Initiative (HFTI), Harvard University Dining Services switched to fair trade coffee in 2002. Fair trade advocacy has gained presence in colleges in recent years. The United Students for Fair Trade, a national...