2013 EAD Lobby Day
Read the latest updates on EAD’s continuing legislative ask on the Farm Bill:
- EAD Statement and Advocacy Alert Following Decimation of Farm Bill by U.S. House of Representatives
- EAD Announces Support for Bi-Partisan Farm Bill Amendment
- Senate Farm Bill Voting Continues; EAD Advocacy Action Needed
Other materials from EAD’s 2013 National Gathering Lobby Day Ask can be accessed here:
Click above to view or print the EAD 2013 Ask.
Click below to view or print related National Gathering or Lobby Day information.
Congress should enact a farm bill this year that alleviates hunger and malnutrition, supports vibrant farms and healthy communities, and protects God’s creation.
Our nation’s food and farm policies, as embodied in the farm bill, affect people from rural America to inner cities, from our local communities to less industrialized regions around the world. The farm bill is the single largest piece of federal policy impacting our food system. A good farm bill can strengthen nutrition programs, help our struggling rural communities, support new and socially disadvantaged farmers, enhance global food aid to the world’s most impoverished, and encourage farming and ranching practices that protect God’s creation. Congress failed to pass a farm bill in 2012, and a number of important programs that promote a just and healthy food system are currently without funding. Other programs are continuing, but need the certainty provided by a multi-year farm bill.
Our nation’s food and farm policies, as embodied in the farm bill, affect people from rural America to inner cities, from our local communities to less industrialized regions around the world. The farm bill is the single largest piece of federal policy impacting our food system. A good farm bill can strengthen nutrition programs, help our struggling rural communities, support new and socially disadvantaged farmers, enhance global food aid to the world’s most impoverished, and encourage farming and ranching practices that protect God’s creation. Congress failed to pass a farm bill in 2012, and a number of important programs that promote a just and healthy food system are currently without funding. Other programs are continuing, but need the certainty provided by a multi-year farm bill.