Negotiations Begin For 2012 Farm Bill

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I'm not really buying the national security thing still. The days of ma and pa farms are essentially over. Maybe we don't like that fact, but it's the way it is. The chance of a drought killing a corporate farm is much lower than a family farm. I think people like the subsidies because of nastolgia for the past, rather than for a real food security issue.

I don't think the government needs to prop up any group over another - that's antithetical to equality. If one farm goes out of business, it will be made up for, and I think we'd be surprised at the negative impace this kind of meddling has in the market.