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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/wage-rally-5_wide-472bda5cd09019d454ad6ab8eeb8f91f9dab35f9.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/wage-rally-5_wide-472bda5cd09019d454ad6ab8eeb8f91f9dab35f9-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Fast-food workers march toward the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. Similar rallies occurred in about 100 cities across the U.S. Photo: Morgan Walker/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"size-large wp-image-74830\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fast-food workers march toward the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. 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A \u003ca href=\"http://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/11001\">living wage\u003c/a> in big cities is closer to $14 an hour, and it jumps to about $20 an hour for an adult supporting a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protests are part of a growing campaign backed by a coalition of advocacy groups, religious organizations and union organizers aimed at raising fast-food wages to $15 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At at time when the fastest-growing jobs in the U.S. economy are also the lowest-paid, the issue of income inequality is on the lips of leaders worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74831\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/wage-rally-6-a034999f8db4aa830d1073d5c6915b234f6150b4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/wage-rally-6-a034999f8db4aa830d1073d5c6915b234f6150b4-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"Amal Mimish, an organizer with Good Jobs Nation, registers protesters at the fast-food-workers' rally in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. 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Photo: Morgan Walker/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/pope-francis-denounces-trickle-down-economic-theories-in-critique-of-inequality/2013/11/26/e17ffe4e-56b6-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html\">remarks by Pope Francis\u003c/a> a few weeks back to President Obama's \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/04/248803175/income-inequality-challenge-of-our-time-obama-says\">speech\u003c/a> Wednesday, it's clear that there's growing unease about the divide between the haves and the have-nots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the image problem for the fast-food industry is exemplified by \u003ca href=\"http://action.ourfuture.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=249&utm_source=self&utm_Medium=email&utm_Campaign=blst2\">this online petition\u003c/a> urging McDonald's chief executive officer, Donald Thompson, to cancel his order for another corporate jet until he pays all his employees a decent wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the petition, McDonald's \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-and-starbucks-buy-jets-2013-10\">just bought\u003c/a> a $35 million luxury Bombardier jet for its corporate executives. 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Photo: George Frey/Landov\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/04/248648797/why-7-per-gallon-milk-looms-once-again\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/12/20131204_me_13.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/122805042/tamara-keith\">Tamara Keith\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/04/248648797/why-7-per-gallon-milk-looms-once-again\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (12/4/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaders of the House and Senate agriculture committees are meeting Wednesday as they continue to try and work out the differences between their respective farm bills. If they fail, the country faces what's being called the \"dairy cliff\" — with milk prices potentially shooting up to about $7 a gallon sometime after the first of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's why: The nation's farm policy would be legally required to revert back to what's called permanent law. In the case of dairy, that would be the 1949 farm bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if House and Senate negotiators fail to reconcile their farm bills, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack warns, \"I'm going to be put in a position where I have to invoke and implement permanent law. And I will do my job because that's what I swore an oath to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that back in 1949, the dairy industry was much smaller and less efficient than the one that exists today, so it received bigger price supports from the federal government. And if U.S. policy reverted to the old law, the government would be forced to go into the marketplace and buy milk, butter and cheese at about double the going rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilsack says this would distort the market: \"So you, as a [milk] producer, would have a choice of selling it to your normal purchaser at $18 or $19 a hundred weight or to USDA at $38 a hundred weight. What do you think producers will do?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course the producers would sell to the government. And that, says Jim Dunn, a professor of agricultural economics at Penn State University, \"would be terrible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every refrigerated warehouse in the United States would be full of cheese and butter,\" he says, \"and non-refrigerated milk warehouses would be full of powdered milk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for the rest of us, he says, there would be sticker shock in the dairy aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilsack says there would be supply issues, too, because the federal government would own the commodities, but there would be shortages in the grocery store. Which is how we'd quickly end up facing milk at $7 a gallon --\"If you can find it,\" notes Vilsack. \"And that is why it is ludicrous for Congress not to get a farm bill done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milk would only be the first commodity affected. Without a farm bill, other commodity prices would spike as well as the year went on, affecting every family in America. Farm policy, often obscure for most consumers, would get personal fast. If this all sounds like illogical and terrible policy — well, that's the point, says Vilsack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a great lever to compel action,\" he says of the invocation of permanent law that hovers over every farm bill. \"In most cases, it's the reason why we've had fairly routine extensions of the farm bill for the past 50 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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Specifically, the FDA, as part of its \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/04/168607713/fda-to-release-rules-to-strengthen-safety-of-food-supply\">overhaul\u003c/a> of food safety regulations, wants to limit the use of animal manure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think of it as the best thing in the world,\" says organic farmer Jim Crawford, \"and they think of it as toxic and nasty and disgusting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every highly productive farmer depends on fertilizer. But organic farmers are practically obsessive about it, because they've renounced industrial sources of nutrients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So on this crisp fall morning, Crawford is rhapsodic as he watches his field manager, Pearl Wetherall, spread manure across a field where cabbage grew last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All that green material — that cover crop and the cabbage — all mixed up with that nice black manure that's just rich and full of good microorganisms, and we're going to get a wonderful fertility situation for next spring here,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/1111-danfarm-81_slide-19d42b74a360099c56828befbab34fc2e365b473.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/1111-danfarm-81_slide-19d42b74a360099c56828befbab34fc2e365b473.jpg\" alt=\"Crawford has been farming organically in south-central Pennsylvania for 40 years. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1023\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74245\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crawford has been farming organically in south-central Pennsylvania for 40 years. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crawford, founder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.newmorningfarm.net/\">New Morning Farm\u003c/a> in south-central Pennsylvania, buys hundreds of tons of manure every year from a big turkey farm a few miles away. \"It's really at the heart of our operation for having good, rich soil, and good fertility, so that we have the highest-quality crops.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also part of a natural cycle, and the basis of organic farming. Most crops strip vital nutrients from the soil. But the nutrients don't disappear; if you feed those crops to cattle or turkeys, the nutrients mostly end up in manure. For the turkey farmer, the manure is waste. For Crawford, it's precious. \"Cycling nutrients. That's what it's all about. Cycling organic nutrients.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a typical practice among organic farmers, especially the smaller ones. But they may now have to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration considers manure a food safety risk. Disease-causing microbes, such as salmonella or toxic forms of\u003cem> E. coli\u003c/em>, are commonly found in animal waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=3880\">Patricia Millner\u003c/a>, a microbiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's research center in Beltsville, Md., says scientists are now trying to figure out exactly how long such bacteria survive in the soil. \"In some cases, salmonella will survive for a few weeks; in other cases, it'll be reported that it survives for 300-plus days,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74247\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/1111-danfarm-56_slide-ad5d547209f28712729db6d30ab69f846aafa5b4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/1111-danfarm-56_slide-ad5d547209f28712729db6d30ab69f846aafa5b4-290x193.jpg\" alt=\"Pearl Wetherall, field manager at New Morning Farm, spreads manure. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"290\" height=\"193\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74247\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pearl Wetherall, field manager at New Morning Farm, spreads manure. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they survive, microbes do get on food. Carrots or radishes, of course, grow right in the soil. But bacteria also end up on salad greens. Raindrops, for instance, splash soil and microbes onto the plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of uncertainty about exactly how big of a risk this is. But the FDA is saying better safe than sorry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is proposing new national \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/FSMA/ucm334114.htm\">food safety rules\u003c/a>. If those rules are enacted, when farmers spread raw manure on a field, they won't be allowed to harvest any crops from that field for the next nine months. (This applies only to crops that people eat raw, such as carrots or lettuce.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules don't cover the smallest farms. They apply to farms with more than half a million dollars in annual sales, or which supply food to supermarkets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that includes Crawford's farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He already follows the organic rules; he doesn't harvest crops within four months of spreading manure. But having to wait nine months — longer than a growing season — would completely disrupt his operations. \"We wouldn't even be able to function,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is an alternative: composted manure. The heat from composting kills disease-causing microbes. But Crawford says compost would cost him anywhere from three to six times more than manure. And he just doesn't see why he should have to switch, because he doesn't believe that what he does now is at all risky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74248\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/1111-danfarm-25_slide-6bb23c7e2dacd5a0f4144e0309da0164006e8324.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/1111-danfarm-25_slide-6bb23c7e2dacd5a0f4144e0309da0164006e8324-290x193.jpg\" alt=\"Feeding the chickens at New Morning Farm. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"290\" height=\"193\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74248\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feeding the chickens at New Morning Farm. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"No one's ever been sickened by anything we've grown, in probably millions of transactions between us and our customers over 40 years,\" he says. Crawford sells most of his food at farmers markets in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet organic farmers are not united in their opposition to the FDA regulations. There's a divide between large and small producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebfarm.com/\">Earthbound Farm\u003c/a>, in California, is among the biggest organic producers of salad greens. Will Daniel, the company's chief food integrity officer, says, \"History is not always your greatest ally, unfortunately. We never thought that we would see spinach or other produce involved in outbreaks.\" But in 2006, his company's spinach was \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhs.ca.gov/\">linked\u003c/a> to an outbreak of \u003cem>E. coli\u003c/em> poisoning; 200 people got sick. Three died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raw manure was not the source of that outbreak. (There's evidence the \u003cem>E. coli\u003c/em> could have come from wild pigs that got into the fields.) But Daniel says using manure does involve risks that his company won't take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Earthbound Farm uses mostly \"a pelletized, processed chicken manure product\" that's been treated with heat and pressure to kill all microbes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've gone in that direction because we feel that it's very important to assure that we are not spreading these pathogens in our fields, that could lead to contaminated product,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel supports the FDA's proposed rules on manure. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So on this crisp fall morning, Crawford is rhapsodic as he watches his field manager, Pearl Wetherall, spread manure across a field where cabbage grew last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All that green material — that cover crop and the cabbage — all mixed up with that nice black manure that's just rich and full of good microorganisms, and we're going to get a wonderful fertility situation for next spring here,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/1111-danfarm-81_slide-19d42b74a360099c56828befbab34fc2e365b473.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/1111-danfarm-81_slide-19d42b74a360099c56828befbab34fc2e365b473.jpg\" alt=\"Crawford has been farming organically in south-central Pennsylvania for 40 years. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1023\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74245\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crawford has been farming organically in south-central Pennsylvania for 40 years. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crawford, founder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.newmorningfarm.net/\">New Morning Farm\u003c/a> in south-central Pennsylvania, buys hundreds of tons of manure every year from a big turkey farm a few miles away. \"It's really at the heart of our operation for having good, rich soil, and good fertility, so that we have the highest-quality crops.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also part of a natural cycle, and the basis of organic farming. Most crops strip vital nutrients from the soil. But the nutrients don't disappear; if you feed those crops to cattle or turkeys, the nutrients mostly end up in manure. For the turkey farmer, the manure is waste. For Crawford, it's precious. \"Cycling nutrients. That's what it's all about. Cycling organic nutrients.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a typical practice among organic farmers, especially the smaller ones. But they may now have to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration considers manure a food safety risk. Disease-causing microbes, such as salmonella or toxic forms of\u003cem> E. coli\u003c/em>, are commonly found in animal waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=3880\">Patricia Millner\u003c/a>, a microbiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's research center in Beltsville, Md., says scientists are now trying to figure out exactly how long such bacteria survive in the soil. \"In some cases, salmonella will survive for a few weeks; in other cases, it'll be reported that it survives for 300-plus days,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74247\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/1111-danfarm-56_slide-ad5d547209f28712729db6d30ab69f846aafa5b4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/1111-danfarm-56_slide-ad5d547209f28712729db6d30ab69f846aafa5b4-290x193.jpg\" alt=\"Pearl Wetherall, field manager at New Morning Farm, spreads manure. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"290\" height=\"193\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74247\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pearl Wetherall, field manager at New Morning Farm, spreads manure. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they survive, microbes do get on food. Carrots or radishes, of course, grow right in the soil. But bacteria also end up on salad greens. Raindrops, for instance, splash soil and microbes onto the plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of uncertainty about exactly how big of a risk this is. But the FDA is saying better safe than sorry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is proposing new national \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/FSMA/ucm334114.htm\">food safety rules\u003c/a>. If those rules are enacted, when farmers spread raw manure on a field, they won't be allowed to harvest any crops from that field for the next nine months. (This applies only to crops that people eat raw, such as carrots or lettuce.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules don't cover the smallest farms. They apply to farms with more than half a million dollars in annual sales, or which supply food to supermarkets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that includes Crawford's farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He already follows the organic rules; he doesn't harvest crops within four months of spreading manure. But having to wait nine months — longer than a growing season — would completely disrupt his operations. \"We wouldn't even be able to function,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is an alternative: composted manure. The heat from composting kills disease-causing microbes. But Crawford says compost would cost him anywhere from three to six times more than manure. And he just doesn't see why he should have to switch, because he doesn't believe that what he does now is at all risky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74248\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/1111-danfarm-25_slide-6bb23c7e2dacd5a0f4144e0309da0164006e8324.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/1111-danfarm-25_slide-6bb23c7e2dacd5a0f4144e0309da0164006e8324-290x193.jpg\" alt=\"Feeding the chickens at New Morning Farm. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"290\" height=\"193\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74248\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feeding the chickens at New Morning Farm. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"No one's ever been sickened by anything we've grown, in probably millions of transactions between us and our customers over 40 years,\" he says. Crawford sells most of his food at farmers markets in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet organic farmers are not united in their opposition to the FDA regulations. There's a divide between large and small producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebfarm.com/\">Earthbound Farm\u003c/a>, in California, is among the biggest organic producers of salad greens. Will Daniel, the company's chief food integrity officer, says, \"History is not always your greatest ally, unfortunately. We never thought that we would see spinach or other produce involved in outbreaks.\" But in 2006, his company's spinach was \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhs.ca.gov/\">linked\u003c/a> to an outbreak of \u003cem>E. coli\u003c/em> poisoning; 200 people got sick. Three died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raw manure was not the source of that outbreak. (There's evidence the \u003cem>E. coli\u003c/em> could have come from wild pigs that got into the fields.) But Daniel says using manure does involve risks that his company won't take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Earthbound Farm uses mostly \"a pelletized, processed chicken manure product\" that's been treated with heat and pressure to kill all microbes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've gone in that direction because we feel that it's very important to assure that we are not spreading these pathogens in our fields, that could lead to contaminated product,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel supports the FDA's proposed rules on manure. 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But a planned meeting to discuss the matter in October was canceled by the federal government shutdown. Now federal officials are saying the final determination on the issue is at least six months away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the groups closely eyeing the proceedings are environmentalists, who say fish farms shouldn't quality for an organic label if they rely heavily on feed that can't be verified as organic. And they cite other problems on fish farms, including pollution and \u003ca href=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02474.x/abstract\">disease\u003c/a>, that make them less sustainable than the typical organic farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is, organic rules are based on how you treat the soil. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/usaid.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/usaid.jpg\" alt=\"A relief worker looks over boxes of aid provided by the U.S. on November 14, 2013 in Leyte, Philippines. Proponents of food aid reform say it makes more sense for the U.S. to buy food donations locally than ship them across the globe. Photo: Chris McGrath/Getty Images\" width=\"624\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74028\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A relief worker looks over boxes of aid provided by the U.S. on November 14, 2013 in Leyte, Philippines. Proponents of food aid reform say it makes more sense for the U.S. to buy food donations locally than ship them across the globe. Photo: Chris McGrath/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/11/15/245181812/philippines-disaster-rekindles-fight-over-food-aid-reform\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/11/20131115_me_03.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by Dan Charles, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/11/15/245181812/philippines-disaster-rekindles-fight-over-food-aid-reform\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (11/15/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency aid, including stocks of food, started arriving this week in cyclone-devastated areas of the Philippines; more is on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first wave of aid — \u003ca href=\"http://www.wfp.org/stories/philippines-typhoon-wfp-sends-high-energy-biscuits-survivors\">high-energy biscuits\u003c/a> designed to keep people alive when food is scarce — arrived via airlift. Huge shiploads of rice will be needed in the weeks and months to come. And exactly how the U.S. donates of that rice is a flashpoint in a long-running debate in Washington, D.C., about food aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wfp.org/photos/gallery/typhoon-haiyan-wfp-response-pictures\">World Food Program\u003c/a> has asked international donors for $88 million worth of food in all for the Philippines. The U.S., long the world's biggest source of humanitarian food donations, is expected to provide roughly 25 to 30 percent of that total. The U.S. has \u003ca href=\"http://www.usaid.gov/haiyan/fy14/fs03\">already moved\u003c/a> to provide one chunk, worth $10 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By coincidence, the cyclone struck just as a final efforts began in Congress to re-write the rules for food aid, and the disaster immediately reignited the conversation about reforming them on Capitol Hill. Advocates of reform called it dramatic evidence that the U.S. should provide more aid in the form of cash, rather than shipping food from American ports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Philippine disaster is, in fact, exactly the sort of situation where it makes sense to send cash for food. There's plenty of rice for sale elsewhere in the Philippines or in neighboring countries, such as Thailand. Buying it locally saves precious time and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the $10 million U.S. contribution so far, in fact, about $8 million is cash. The rest, $2 million worth of rice, will be shipped from Sri Lanka. That rice was grown in the U.S., then stored in Sri Lanka in anticipation of emergencies in Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally, the U.S. delivered its food aid \"in-kind,\" as grain shipped from American ports. The amount of cash aid has been growing in recent years, but still is limited to about $300 million each year, roughly 20 percent of the total American food aid budget. Last year, much of the cash \u003ca href=\"http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2013/0606/Flexibility-in-US-food-aid-to-Syria-should-be-the-rule-not-the-exception\">was used\u003c/a> in Syria. (It's fortunate for the Philippines, in fact, that the U.S. government's fiscal year just started — there's plenty of cash available to spend.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules for farm aid are part of the farm bill, an embattled piece of legislation the Congress has been struggling to pass for an eternity. (OK, for almost two years.) The Obama Administration \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/04/10/as-promised-obama-wants-to-overhaul-global-anti-hunger-efforts/\">proposed\u003c/a> a drastic increase in funding for cash aid, but Congress balked, in part due to vigorous opposition from groups with a stake in shipping food abroad, including farmers and shippers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House, in its version of the farm bill, kept the current limits on cash aid. 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Just last week, voters in Washington state narrowly defeated a measure that would have required food manufacturers to reveal whether their products contain genetically modified ingredients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the initiative — and similar proposals in other states — say that consumers have a right to know what they're eating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are lots of things we might want to know about our food. So what belongs on the label?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went to four deep thinkers about food and asked them what they'd most like to see labeled. What's the most important thing to know about food, if you're trying to be a health-conscious, responsible consumer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started with \u003ca href=\"http://environment.umn.edu/about/ione_bios/jon_foley.html\">Jonathan Foley\u003c/a>, director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. On Twitter, Foley is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GlobalEcoGuy\">@GlobalEcoGuy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foley was reluctant to give an answer at first; simple labels can be misleading, he said. But eventually he came up with his top three label suggestions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First, deforestation, yes or no?\" he said. In other words, did people cut down trees to grow this food? That's been happening in Indonesia and Malaysia to make room for palm oil plantations. According to Foley, he can't think of a \"bigger hammer to the environment\" than deforestation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, Foley continued, \"How much water did it take, and from where?\" Farmers around the world have been draining rivers and underground aquifers to water their crops. \"And No. 3, how much fertilizer did it take, and did you manage to keep it from running off?\" Fertilizer runoff from farms has choked lakes and estuaries from China to the Chesapeake Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, the state of our environment certainly isn't the only thing to think about with food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just want to know that folks are getting paid a basic living wage,\" says writer \u003ca href=\"http://traciemcmillan.com/\">Tracie McMillan\u003c/a>. For her book, \u003cem>The American Way of Eating,\u003c/em> McMillan went undercover and worked in the vegetable fields of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are field workers who don't even earn a minimum wage, she says. Some workers get cheated out of their pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People have worried about this sort of thing with imported food, she said. It led to Fair Trade coffee and bananas, \"and the presumption was, you didn't need something like that for the U.S., because we had labor laws that were enforced enough that anything in the U.S. would have been produced under [acceptable] labor conditions. And that's unfortunately no longer the case,\" McMillan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This idea was echoed by \u003ca href=\"http://foodtank.org/danielle-nierenberg\">Danielle Nierenberg\u003c/a>, co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://foodtank.org/\">Food Tank\u003c/a> — Nierenberg calls it a food think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She'd love to see food get a grade based on how farmworkers were treated, as well as farm animals — \"something that made it clear to consumers that this was a product where we did our best to make it fairly, justly and humanely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's important to keep it simple, she says. If a label is complicated, people just get confused. \"People are so bombarded with information, particularly around food, that they don't know what to choose, and they don't really realize the impact of what they're eating on their personal health,\" Nierenberg says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is exactly the problem that my last big thinker wants to solve. Michael Jacobson is the grand old man of food labels. He's executive director of the watchdog group \u003ca href=\"http://www.cspinet.org/\">Center for Science in the Public Interest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Twenty years ago, we led the effort to get nutrition facts labels on foods,\" Jacobson says. \"Now they're there. Everybody loves them. But they haven't had much impact on the American diet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Jacobson now believes we don't need more fine print about sodium and sugar. We need something that grabs people's attention. \"A label that would spur them to choose healthier foods.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobson wants to put some sort of symbol, or number, right on the front of the package, that gives food a grade. You'd give food credit for all the good stuff in it, such as vitamins and minerals. 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