[Flipper4]

This radical activist group clearly doesn't deserve a tax break. Let's hope the Internal Revenue Service takes notice.

[Iowa Granny]

And if you check their membership, I think you will find this is the same group who sent our nation into a frenzy over toxic apples working from a group known as Mothers and Others.

Flipper, you hit the nail on the head with your observation about their true agenda being Organic. So glad you were able to fret this out immediately.

[reformedliberal]

Thanx for posting this and many kudos to Michelle for writing it.

When the WSJ 1st published their praise of the EWG's farm-subsidy data base, I tried to warn some of our FReepers that EWG wasn't on our side or benign and got personally flamed for my effort. Perhaps this will make some conservatives and libertarians look more closely at agendas.

The Farm Bill contains disturbing regulation for hobby dog breeders, as well. The radical Greens have teamed up with the radical Animal Rights groups with the intent of stopping animal breeding and use through scare tactics using loaded language such as *puppy mills* and *factory farms". Trouble is, they categorize all dog breeders as *puppy mills* and all farms that aren't organic as *factory farms*.

Money to those who are wealthy may be disturbing to some; poor conditions for animals certainly needs to be addressed and there is no doubt our farm policy needs an overhaul, but, we all need to become more educated to the nuances of these issues.