An effort to limit government payments going to the largest farms failed in the Senate Thursday, quashing the best chance consumer and environmental groups had to promote healthier diets and better environmental stewardship of the nation's nearly one billion acres of farmland in the $288 billion farm bill now steamrolling to passage. (San Francisco Chronicle, Friday)
Special interests win again.
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