2007 Farm Bill - Senate HR 2419
Wednesday,November, 07 ,2007 Filed in: I-CAN
As we promised, attached is the action alert asking for your help in advocating improving the parts of the 2007 Farm Bill that are priorities for the Catholic community. The Senate is taking up HR 2419, its version of the Farm Bill next week.
The Farm Bill is complex and our priorities are several. While these priorities are all important to the Catholic community, focus on the portions of the alert that are most relevant and needed in your community. We especially urge you to seek support for the Dorgan-Grassley Amendment.
Our priorities in the 2007 Farm Bill are:
1) Helping hungry people here and abroad;
2) Targeting agricultural assistance to those family farmers who need it most rather than large, powerful enterprises that need it least; and
3) Ensuring that our farm subsidies do not hurt poor farmers in developing countries.
Please join with USCCB, National Catholic Rural Life Conference, Catholic Relief Services and Catholic Charities USA in sending a strong message to Congress that our farm and food policies must reflect our values, reducing hunger and poverty, providing a safety net to smaller and moderate size farmers and helping farmers in developing countries to feed their families and make a decent living. Agriculture policies should not hurt or displace smaller family farmers and ranchers out of the marketplace, nor threaten the livelihoods of farmers in developing countries.
We must now build on what was accomplished in the House and in the Senate Agriculture Committee. We need your help persuading the Senate to feed the hungry and help struggling farmers in the U.S. and around the world.
For more information, please contact:
Roxana Barillas at USCCB (202) 541-3445, rbarillas@usccb.org; Fr. Andrew Small OMI at USCCB (202) 541-3153, asmall@usccb.org; Bob Gronski at the National Catholic Rural Life Conference (515) 270-2634, ncrlcg@mchsi.com; Lucreda Cobbs at Catholic Charities USA, (703) 236-6243, lcobbs@catholiccharitiesusa.org; and Brendan Cavanagh at Catholic Relief Services, (410) 951-7462, bcavanag@crs.org.
Our priorities in the 2007 Farm Bill are:
1) Helping hungry people here and abroad;
2) Targeting agricultural assistance to those family farmers who need it most rather than large, powerful enterprises that need it least; and
3) Ensuring that our farm subsidies do not hurt poor farmers in developing countries.
Please join with USCCB, National Catholic Rural Life Conference, Catholic Relief Services and Catholic Charities USA in sending a strong message to Congress that our farm and food policies must reflect our values, reducing hunger and poverty, providing a safety net to smaller and moderate size farmers and helping farmers in developing countries to feed their families and make a decent living. Agriculture policies should not hurt or displace smaller family farmers and ranchers out of the marketplace, nor threaten the livelihoods of farmers in developing countries.
We must now build on what was accomplished in the House and in the Senate Agriculture Committee. We need your help persuading the Senate to feed the hungry and help struggling farmers in the U.S. and around the world.
For more information, please contact:
Roxana Barillas at USCCB (202) 541-3445, rbarillas@usccb.org; Fr. Andrew Small OMI at USCCB (202) 541-3153, asmall@usccb.org; Bob Gronski at the National Catholic Rural Life Conference (515) 270-2634, ncrlcg@mchsi.com; Lucreda Cobbs at Catholic Charities USA, (703) 236-6243, lcobbs@catholiccharitiesusa.org; and Brendan Cavanagh at Catholic Relief Services, (410) 951-7462, bcavanag@crs.org.