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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/07/10/MNGNUQTQIT1.DTL">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/07/10/MNGNUQTQIT1.DTL</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<h1><b><font size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>The
new food crusade<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<h2><b><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Organic
farms, conservation, fruits and veggies in schools -- the Bay Area leads the
charge to change how Congress subsidizes farming<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>
<p class=byline><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="mailto:cness@sfchronicle.com">Carol Ness, Chronicle Staff
Writer</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=date><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tuesday,
July 10, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a
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src="cid:image001.gif@01C7C2DB.694ED970" vspace=1
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alt="Kristina Feldman (left) sells produce at the Bayview-Hunt..."></span></a><a
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src="cid:image004.gif@01C7C2DB.694ED970" vspace=1
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><span
id=articlebody>It was almost accidental activism. Acme Bread's Steve Sullivan
was on a class trip to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">D.C.</st1:State></st1:place>, with his 13-year-old
daughter when their flight home was canceled. A scramble to rebook ended with
the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:City>
food artisan and his family seated almost across the aisle from California Sen.
Dianne Feinstein. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>So he
handed her a copy of his new favorite book, "Food Fight," by <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Sonoma</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
author Daniel Imhoff. The book is a call to arms, urging Congress to use the
2007 farm bill to put more healthful food on people's plates. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The bill,
which in recent years has totaled about $70 billion annually, comes up about
once every five years. Although the farm bill has far-reaching consequences for
the food supply, most people outside the Midwestern Farm Belt, which gets huge
farm bill subsidies, have ignored it. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This
year, things are different. Sullivan's trip down the aisle, and the book, are
part of a wave of populist activism, much of it centered in the Bay Area, that
is trying to change how a big chunk of farm bill money is spent. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The short
version of the argument -- and nothing is short when it comes to the
mind-numbing, complex farm bill -- is that the bill subsidizes the
overproduction of corn and soy in the <st1:place w:st="on">Midwest</st1:place>,
which is driving up obesity and diabetes and polluting the land. Instead, they
say, the farm bill should put more money into sustainable and organic food
production, agricultural conservation and efforts to put a higher priority on
fresh, local fruits and vegetables. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Their
slogan: It's the food, health and farm bill. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"I
want you to realize how many people in the Bay Area are talking about
this," Sullivan said he told Feinstein. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Earlier,
when the class visited a Feinstein constituent breakfast, he'd asked her the
key question fueling the push for change: Have you ever considered using the
farm bill to improve childhood nutrition, public health, pollution problems,
environmental quality and farmer incomes? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"I
don't know if she's just a good actress or what," Sullivan recounted.
"But she stopped, her jaw dropped, and she said, 'I haven't. That's a
really good way of thinking about it.' " <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>What
happens to the farm bill this time around could turn on such moments. This
year's burst of activism rises from the national trend toward local,
sustainable and conscious eating -- consumers who want to know what they're eating,
where it comes from and how it is produced. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Michael
Pollan, the sustainable food movement leader and UC Berkeley professor and
writer, has led the charge, starting with his best-selling "The Omnivore's
Dilemma" and in articles and public appearances. A Pollan-moderated forum
on the farm bill attracted a crowd of 700 to UC Berkeley's Wheeler Auditorium
this year. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Similar
forums have sprouted at farmers' markets and community halls all over the
country. Influential voices such as health guru Andrew Weil and author Barbara
Kingsolver have taken up the cause and attracted overflow audiences. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Imhoff, a
food policy writer whose "Food Fight" is in its second printing, was
a guest on National Public Radio's "West Coast Live" in late June,
broadcast from San Francisco's Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>These
writers are the public face of a movement being worked from the inside by broad
coalition of farm, environment and anti-hunger groups, including the
Watsonville-based California Coalition for Food and Farming and the
Venice-based California Food and Justice Coalition. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>California</span></font></st1:place></st1:State>,
long a sleeping tiger when it comes to the farm bill, has awakened, too.
Although it's the biggest agricultural state, <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State> grows mainly fruits and
vegetables, which aren't considered commodity crops and have never been
subsidized. But now the administration of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and 26
members of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>'s
congressional delegation are pressing for farm bill reform. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Cities
such as <st1:City w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:City> and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:City> have hopped on board, too. San
Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom got the U.S. Conference of Mayors to pass a
resolution urging farm bill reform at its recent meeting in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:City>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"This
is the first time that the farm bill is being scrutinized by people outside the
farm block," Imhoff said in an interview. "To change it, people have
to realize how it affects their lives on a daily basis, and that's what's
happening." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The juicy
prize that's arousing new appetites is the subsidy program, which has totaled
about $30 billion a year in recent years. Nutrition programs, including food
stamps, consume another $30 billion-plus of the bill's funding. Conservation's
share has risen to $8 billion. Champions of sustainability, organics and the
like have always found themselves competing for crumbs around the edges. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Farm Belt
politicians defend the subsidies as necessary to keep family farmers in
business, secure the food supply, fuel the engines of trade, and keep the
agribusiness economy revving high. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
reformers argue that the subsidies amount to price supports for junk food. They
say subsidies encourage commodity growers to plant an oversupply of low-priced
corn and soy, which is processed into high-calorie high-fructose corn syrup and
soybean oil and fed to feedlot animals bound for burgerville. The result: cheap
food full of added sugar and fat. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
retail price of fruits and vegetables doubled from 1985 to 2000, but the cost
of added fats and sugars remained the same, according to a paper by <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Washington</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> public health specialist Adam
Drewnowski, published June 24 in Epidemiologic Reviews. The paper drew a direct
connection between cheap corn- and soy-based food and the obesity and diabetes
epidemics. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><st1:State w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>California</span></font></st1:State>'s interest has
been piqued, among other things, by the fact that, dollar for agricultural
dollar, the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Golden</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> is shortchanged. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>California</span></font></st1:place></st1:State>
rice and cotton farmers pulled in $5.9 billion in subsidies between 1995 and
2005 -- but that put it behind nine other states, according to a searchable database
published by the Washington- and Oakland-based Environmental Working Group, a
key player in farm bill reform. Only 9 percent of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>'s farmers get any subsidy at all.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>An
interactive map on the site dramatically shows where the money goes -- and
where it doesn't. Having the database online has been a major weapon for
reformers, because it shows where the subsidy money is concentrated. The
environmental group's own analysis concludes that two-thirds of the subsidy
money for 2003 through 2005 went to just 10 percent of all recipients. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>For all
the family farms that subsidies help support, many corporate farms rake in more
than $250,000 a year in subsidies, and a few earn more than $500,000. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"This
is a food fight, but it's really a fight about money," the environmental
group's executive director, Ken Cook, has said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The farm
bill reformers stopped short of pushing for subsidies for broccoli or peaches. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
ethanol craze has pushed corn prices up so high that projected subsidies have
been reduced by $7 billion to $8 billion a year -- but the congressional budget
process already has stripped that money out of 2007 farm bill. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Various
proposals would further limit subsidies, a little or a lot. That would free
money for programs that make it easier and less expensive for people to buy
fruits and vegetables, for farmers to develop local markets for their crops,
and for research into organic and sustainable farming techniques. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A model
is the tiny farmers' market in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San
Francisco</st1:place></st1:City>'s Bayview-Hunters Point, which got a rare
community food project grant from the farm bill for startup costs. The money
also pays the handful of vendors $50 a week to underwrite low prices and to
keep coming back, though they can't earn much. It's one of a very few such
markets to get farm bill money. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On one
recent Wednesday morning, market neighbor Mary Charles loaded up. For just $10,
she bought four baskets of pesticide-free Yerena Farms strawberries as well as
carrots, garlic, summer squash, lettuce, spring onions and chard grown in the
neighborhood and at nearby Alemany Farm, which is the kind of program that
could benefit from changes in the farm bill. It held its own farm bill forum
this year. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Charles
could buy lots more food energy -- calories -- if she bought processed food
across the street at the corner store. But she is diabetic, and she cooks for
her four kids and two grandkids. Putting fresh produce on their plates is the
best thing Charles can do for her family's health, she says, and she stops by
the farmers' market every week. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"It's
a good thing to have in the neighborhood to change people's ideas about how to
eat," Charles says. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Another
example is a pilot program, rolled out in the 2002 farm bill, that gives
schools $92 extra per child to be spent just on fruits and vegetables. The
program hasn't reached <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>,
but a change being pushed in the 2007 farm bill would extend it to all 50
states. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In the
2002 farm bill, community food projects like the Bayview market got a total of
$5 million -- about one-third of the amount that a single <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Arkansas</st1:place></st1:State> rice cooperative earned in crop
subsidies in 2005. The community projects' share could rise to $30 million
under changes proposed in the 2007 farm bill, but final action is far off. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Conservationists
also embraced broad reform this time around, according to Ralph Grossi, a <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Marin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
beef rancher and president of American Farmland Trust. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"This
time, our group made the determination that just focusing on conservation is
not enough," he said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Another
reason is that while Congress has approved many conservation programs in
principle, it hasn't come through with the money to fund many of them. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>How far
the reform movement can push Congress will start to play out late this month,
and if it's not exactly a summer blockbuster, the lobbying has been intense. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>California
has extra muscle in this time around, with Democrats back in power, San
Francisco's Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker and Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Atwater
(Merced County), sponsor of the reformist Eat Healthy America Act, sitting on
the Agriculture Committee. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Yet, last
month, the commodities subcommittee -- the one in charge of subsidies --
refused to consider any changes and voted to extend the current farm bill for
another two years, past the next presidential election. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>That set
up a showdown, scheduled for July 17-19 in the House Agriculture Committee. The
Senate's Agriculture Committee will have its own go-round. Later, the
appropriations committees of both houses will decide which programs will
actually be funded. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>And this
is where Feinstein comes in -- and, potentially, "Food Fight." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"People
hand her things all the time," her spokesman, Scott Gerber, said Monday.
"She hasn't had a chance to read it." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>But, he
added, "It's still early." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>States with most subsidies <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>These
states received the most money for commodity subsidies from 1995 to 2005. Total
subsidies for that period were $164.7 billion. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Helping farmers <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Here's a
quick look at the number of farms in various states, according to the 2002 USDA
Census of Agriculture. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>To learn more <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Online
resources for farm bill information: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>U.S.</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region>
Department of Agriculture: <a href="http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome">www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome</a>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>California
Department of Food and Agriculture: <a href="http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/farmbill07">www.cdfa.ca.gov/farmbill07</a>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Environmental
Working Group Interactive Farm Bill Database: <a
href="http://farm.ewg.org/sites/farmbill2007/index.php">farm.ewg.org/sites/farmbill2007/index.php</a>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>California
Food and Justice Coalition: <a
href="http://www.foodsecurity.org/california/Farm_Bill.html">www.foodsecurity.org/california/Farm_Bill.html</a>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>California
Coalition for Food and Farming: <a href="http://www.calfoodandfarming.org">www.calfoodandfarming.org</a>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Food
Fight: <a href="http://www.watershedmedia.org/foodfight_overview.html">www.watershedmedia.org/foodfight_overview.html</a>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Community
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alliance</st1:place></st1:City> With
Family Farmers: <a href="http://www.caff.org">www.caff.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>American
Farmland Trust: <a href="http://www.farmland.org">www.farmland.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sustainable
Agriculture Coalition: <a href="http://www.msawg.org">www.msawg.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Western
Growers: <a href="http://www.wga.com">www.wga.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Organic
Farming Research Foundation: <a href="http://www.ofrf.org/index.html">www.ofrf.org/index.html</a>
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<p><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-style:italic'>E-mail Carol Ness at <a href="mailto:cness@sfchronicle.com">cness@sfchronicle.com</a>.</span></font></i>
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