To: The United States Senate
Tell your Senator: Vote NO on the Farm Bill!
Dear Senator,
As a constituent, I am writing to express my strong opposition to the Farm Bill released by the Senate Agriculture Committee last week. While the bill is being celebrated as a bipartisan piece of legislation, it would continue to give massive handouts to corporate agriculture and factory farms that pollute our air, water and soil. During a time of growing ecological crisis, it fails to regulate toxic pesticides and adequately expand conservation programs. I urge you to vote NO for this bill because it prioritizes corporate profits at the expense of consumers, farmers and the planet.
I was pleased to see that the Senate’s proposed Farm Bill does not include the extreme anti-environment riders on pesticides, endangered species or waterways that were in the House Bill. I urge you to work with the Senate to ensure that these environmental riders remain out of the bill. I was also pleased to see that the bill does include important wins for organic agriculture, including fending off some of the worst attacks on the authority of the National Organic Standards Board and increasing critical funding for organic programs. I urge you to work with the Senate to ensure that these elements remain in the bill. I also urge you to work with the committee to ensure that the bill includes critical protections for habitat, expands conservation programs and provides farmers with financial incentives to curb pesticide use and employ alternative pest management strategies.
The Farm Bill should be an opportunity to reduce the amount of poison that we apply to food and should not be propping up corporate, chemical-intensive agriculture. I urge you to vote NO for this piece of legislation and advance a farm bill that promotes a sustainable and equitable food system.
Sincerely,
As a constituent, I am writing to express my strong opposition to the Farm Bill released by the Senate Agriculture Committee last week. While the bill is being celebrated as a bipartisan piece of legislation, it would continue to give massive handouts to corporate agriculture and factory farms that pollute our air, water and soil. During a time of growing ecological crisis, it fails to regulate toxic pesticides and adequately expand conservation programs. I urge you to vote NO for this bill because it prioritizes corporate profits at the expense of consumers, farmers and the planet.
I was pleased to see that the Senate’s proposed Farm Bill does not include the extreme anti-environment riders on pesticides, endangered species or waterways that were in the House Bill. I urge you to work with the Senate to ensure that these environmental riders remain out of the bill. I was also pleased to see that the bill does include important wins for organic agriculture, including fending off some of the worst attacks on the authority of the National Organic Standards Board and increasing critical funding for organic programs. I urge you to work with the Senate to ensure that these elements remain in the bill. I also urge you to work with the committee to ensure that the bill includes critical protections for habitat, expands conservation programs and provides farmers with financial incentives to curb pesticide use and employ alternative pest management strategies.
The Farm Bill should be an opportunity to reduce the amount of poison that we apply to food and should not be propping up corporate, chemical-intensive agriculture. I urge you to vote NO for this piece of legislation and advance a farm bill that promotes a sustainable and equitable food system.
Sincerely,
Why is this important?
On Friday, the Senate released the text of the Farm Bill. The new bill still gives massive handouts to factory farms that pollute our air, water and soil. It also fails to expand conservation programs that would help farmers limit their use of toxic pesticides.
We can’t let Congress pass a business-as-usual bill that continues to support Big Ag. We need a bill that prioritizes consumers, family farmers and the planet.
We can’t let Congress pass a business-as-usual bill that continues to support Big Ag. We need a bill that prioritizes consumers, family farmers and the planet.