The Sacramento Bee offers up an editorial about the new farm bill.
America loves its farmers. Farmers get special protections throughout the law.
Unfortunately, the image conjured up in the public's minds about the gritty tiller of the earth scratching a living from the fruit of his toils is now a myth.
Farm legislation has grown into a another form of corporate welfare. It serves to subsidize an industry dominated by large agribusiness.
Any mention of eliminating farming subsidies though causes the proponents of agribusiness to trot out images of the family farmer barely getting by, threats of bad weather causing losses of family farms, etc.
Got a news flash: Family farming exists only in nostalgia.
Nostalgia fails as a rationale for farm subsidies.
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