The Farm Bill embodies the "pour something into every trough" approach to legislation that has ballooned our deficit, undercut our currency, and make our government the unabashed tool of special interests. I'm very happy to see that Hispanic farm workers are supposed to benefit from this bill--except there seems to be a remarkable lack of detail on how that is supposed to happen aside from a vague trickle-down promise that Latino farmers will get some of the $1.6 billion allocated for fresh fruit and vegetable production and field workers will have a better life once the checks for pesticide research funds are cashed by the chemical companies. Sorry--I ain't drinking that Kool-Aid.
The school lunch program and food stamps aside, If the entire list of recipients of this largess were every published, we'd find that 99.999% of it is going into corporate pockets. When you add in the effect of this legislation on world food supplies, it makes the U.S. a major contributor to recurring famine. It's disgraceful. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton should be ashamed of themselves for approving it.