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The still-unresolved 2007 Farm Bill is getting the United States in trouble with her bookies at the WTO, while diverse and powerful groups wrangle over their own interests on Capitol Hill, with consumers caught in the middle. It’s like every other Farm Bill except that this time someone noticed.
In 2007, the links between the Farm Bill, USDA policy, human health and energy policy have been touched on in the popular press for the first time since the USDA’s role was significantly expanded in the early 1950s ((http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/magaz…) . In fact, the influence of today’s USDA reaches just about every significant geopolitical and personal situation in
one way or another, be it trade, immigration, health care policy and Medicare, the type of light bulb you may buy, the price of a Whopper vs. a bowl of cherries or even where war will break out next.
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