The pain of paying for food

By Michele Payn | August 27, 2019 |

Last week I was at the grocery store and grabbed a bottle of water on the way to the cash register. I felt bad about adding more plastic in the landfill, but needed the water to wash down my Advil and bring some relief to the headache caused by grocery shopping. As I…

Agriculture Now Responsible for Federal Deficit

By Michele Payn | December 29, 2008 |

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBZgyaA9Ryw] Agriculture is now in the firing line for excessive government spending. Rather than the banks or auto makers who have received massive bailouts, food production is attacked in “Agriculture: Downsizing the Federal Government.” This finger pointing goes from “an exploding number of USDA employees” to subsidies going to only to corporate farms to rising food…