Reform the Farm Bill, eat local and invest in biofuels

President Bush took a swipe at what he calls the "massive, bloated Farm Bill" and suggests that we begin to eliminate subsidies to the "multimillionaire farmers" in a press conference last week. He also suggested that buying from local farmers would be a "very creative policy" and a good way to deal with food scarcity and insecurity internationally. But, he stopped short of criticizing the ethanol craze as a contributor to rising food prices, saying, "it's in our national interests that our farmers grow energy as opposed to us purchasing energy from parts of the world that are unstable or may not like us." Full story