WASHINGTON (April 4, 2011)— In his December 1957 National Review column, “Big Sister Is Watching You,” Whittaker Chambers tore apart Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged for a lot of reasons, many of which remind me of today’s critics of U.S. farm policy. For instance, Chambers said that Rand “deals wholly in the blackest blacks and the…
Throughout the past three years, there has been a deliberate effort to distort the truth about American ethanol’s ability to provide both fuel and food in this country, mostly from companies that seek to profit from high grocery store prices. Anyone who is involved in America’s rural economy values the economic opportunity offered by ethanol…
It’s always the same. Food prices rise, grocery bills get bigger, and the media take to their exposes about big, bad agribusiness taking money from the cash-strapped American consumer. But a recent study released by the USDA, may have some reporters rewriting their copy. The report, titled, “A Revised and Expanded Food Dollar Series: A…