Government Food Policies and their Responsibility

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on healthy food choices, and allow local farms to prosper.
The American Farm Bill has many long range affects on the economy and the state of food. Author Michael Pollan says in an article about the current bill, “few pieces of legislation have as profound an impact on the American landscape and environment” than the farm bill itself (Pollan 2). It promotes large scale production and discourages local farming, which is not beneficial for our health or the economy. The Farm Bill contains “a smorgasbord of incentives and disincentives” that determines “what happens on nearly half of the private land in America” (Pollan 2). This makes it almost impossible for local farmers to flourish, they will always be competing with the larger corporations, and their prices will never be low enough. The Farm Bill also allows the government to make it easier to ...

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objectives” (Pollan 2). The public’s health is no longer in mind when farmers are trying to make as much money as possible off of the cheapest, most efficient crop.
There are many changes that need to be made in order for the food culture to improve. The Farm Bill should be “supporting prices and limiting production” instead of solely encouraging the most amount of production possible (Pollan 2). The predicted effect of this is that farmers have a surplus of food. Therefore, the government subsidizes the farmers and this further encourages farmers to produce as much as possible. The solution to ending this mass overproduction and diversifying food culture is to begin with local ...

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