Agricultural Consensus Meeting: April 7, Providence, 7 pm‏

This is a fascinating study to update the national agriculture policy position.  Several short articles pertaining to the Agriculture Update study and the consensus meeting:

• Agriculture Glossary
• Agriculture Policy (LWV-US's)
• Consensus questions
• Economic Health (summarized & annotated)
• Food Labeling (summarized & annotated)
• Research and Development
• Food Safety
• Animal management discussion
• Interaction of Federal Agencies with Food Safety Missions
• The Healthy Farm (Union of Concerned Scientists)

Just read as much as you can, but DON'T look at the list and think I can't possibly contribute to the consensus.  This is overwhelming for Congress.  Just come and learn and contribute.  The Healthy Farm is very informative and a short interesting read.

If you really get into it, other study documents can be found on the LWV website.  Use this link to go directly to the study documents http://www.lwv.org/search/content/Agriculture%20Study?page=1   They include articles on nanotechnology as it pertains to agriculture, water management and tons of source material.

 

And finally, since the study in part is about feeding people, I thought it would be nice to bring a non-perishable item for the Camp Street Food pantry which longtime league member Mary Hazeltine is a co-director.