If we want to protect our foodsupply, then we must grow the food ourselves. And we must protect the farmswhere the food is produced. We are, after all, what we eat. It's time westopped taking this essential element for granted. I would be willing to pay taxes to provide farm support if the farmersactually received the funds.
Farmers keep talking about high input costs.
The subsidies farmers receive go to seed companies, farm chemical andfertilizer companies, and the agricultural bio-tech industry. So when we subsidize farmers we arereally using government money to subsidize the investors in all of theseindustries. I buy organic foods but resent the fact that most of them are shipped infrom California when, in fact, they could be produced in Canada. Let'ssubsidize farmers in the transition to organic farming. They would have amuch better income, it would be better for the environment and we wouldhave healthier food.