SENATE DEBATES CUTTING FOOD AID TO 150,000 IMPOVERISHED U.S. CHILDREN

I got this from the Organic Consumers Association.

SENATE DEBATES CUTTING FOOD AID TO 150,000 IMPOVERISHED U.S. CHILDREN
The Senate is currently debating cutting $3 billion from farm conservation and food stamp programs. Spearheaded by Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga) and GOP supporters, the proposal would eliminate food stamps for more than 300,000 impoverished people. Currently, more than half of all food stamp recipients are children, and a quarter are senior citizens. While millions of Americans are looking for ways to cope with the aftermath of hurricanes and drought, powerful members of the Senate are being swayed by agriculture industry lobbyists, who are pushing for food stamps cuts while supporting massive tax payer subsidies to the nation’s wealthiest industrial agriculture operations. “Right now the difference between life and death for many Americans is the food stamp program,” said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. “We should not, we cannot, cut the very nutritional programs that are literally saving lives.”

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