Tag Archive for Agriculture

Raisin Serfdom In The Great U.S.A.

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Via the Coyote Blog. If you’re not deeply concerned, you’re not paying attention. And yet each day you can see countless Tweets and FB posts proclaiming that our woes are due to living in some kind of libertarian free-market utopia. Raisin Farmers…

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Quick Look At Agricultural Subsidies

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Many on the right (I think rightly, for the most part) get upset when they see welfare at the individual level, particularly when it’s obviously abused beyond even its normal intentions. But they fail to get concerned about (or perhaps even see)…

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The Body Count of Rice Red Tape

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This is nothing less than disgraceful. Matt Ridley on the Copenhagen Consensus, Rice and Red Tape – WSJ.com: The evidence for micronutrients has been getting stronger. Studies from Guatemala, following up children for 30 years, find that good early nutrition…

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Bumper Sticker Musings, What Ones Amuse You?

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I constantly find myself leaning in traffic and at intersections to read other people’s bumper stickers. I saw this today: “Hungry? Out of Work? Eat your Foreign Car!” And I almost daily see: “Well-behaved women rarely make history.” “Coexist” “OBX”…

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I Don’t Grow Corn OR Raise Pigs …

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I don’t grow corn, raise pigs, or fly people anywhere. So why am I not on the government subsidy gravy-train? How do I get on-board? CARPE DIEM: Getting Paid by Gov’t. for NOT Flying Passengers: “We’re all familiar with various…

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VDH Blasts The Dept. of Agriculture

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And asks some great questions in the process. [Remember this post from a week or so ago?] The department of food subsidies – Victor Davis Hanson – fresnobee.com: “The Department of Agriculture no longer serves as a lifeline to millions…

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