Download Coalition Challenged Subsidies - Marketing - Lecture Slides and more Slides Marketing Management in PDF only on Docsity! 13 Dilemma for Public Health: Subsidies Problems: money to wealthy and large farms, upside down food pyramid, environmentally unsustainable, harm to international farmers, hindering trade agreements Economics: small role in retail price, but … - Low cost of corn/soybeans makes sugars and fats cheap for food processors to use, “adds value” without adding cost - Meat: about half of corn, soy to animal feed Tufts study: industrial animal producers $35 billion indirect subsidy due to feed grains 20 to 25 percent below production cost Are subsidies the problem, or a symptom/safety net? - Need price supports, storage of reserve commodities, reduced incentive to plant fencerow to fencerow Without subsidies, what happens to farmers/food production? Docsity.com 14 “Left-Right” Coalition Challenged Subsidies Coalition: environmentalists, deficit hawks, anti-poverty, international food security, taxpayer groups, religious organizations, those supporting free trade Fairness in Farm and Food Policy Amendment (Ron Kind, D-WI) Save $10 billion by reforming subsidy system - Revenue-based safety net, income limit $250,000 to receive subsidies, subsidy limit up to $250,000, gradually reduce automatic direct payments Put money (plus other funds) towards hunger, conservation, fruit/ vegetable producers, healthy food promotion, minority farmers, deficit reduction, school lunch overseas, etc. Opposition: agriculture; many progressive food/farm groups wanted to support but couldn’t Amendment failed July 2007 Docsity.com 17 The Farm Bill Due to copyright restrictions, JHSPH OpenCourseWare is unable to display this image. Docsity.com 18 Nutrition Title: Healthy, Sustainable Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Snack Program ($500 million mandatory, five years) Pilot program to evaluate incentives for buying fresh fruits/ vegetables ($20 million mandatory) Farmers’ markets—large increase - Farmers’ Market Promotion Program ($33 million mandatory, five years) - Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program ($20.6 million per year mandatory) Community Food Projects ($5 million mandatory)—becomes permanent Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development Center ($3 million mandatory) USDA “Food Desert” Study ($500,000 discretionary) Docsity.com 19 Nutrition Title: Food Security Food Stamp Program renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ($7.8 billion new funds) - Benefits increased, indexed to inflation Expand infrastructure/capacity of food banks - Handle perishable food, procure local food Food bank purchase of commodities ($1.26 billion new) Docsity.com
