Thursday, April 07, 2005
What Will Eliot Spitzer Do About Agribusiness in Rural New York?
Gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer has accepted $11,000 from agricultural interests including $500 from the Farm Bureau. Interestingly, the Farm Bureau is listed under agriculture but studies by the National Wildlife Federation show that the Bureau is primarily an insurance company and that most of its so-called members are purchasers of insurance and not really farmers. Politicians don’t know that and they figure that the Bureau speaks for farmers. The Bureau speaks for agri-business.
Will Mr. Spitzer take his marching orders from agri-business proponents at the Farm Bureau or will he meet with the real farmers?
And when will the attorney general’s office investigate the Farm Bureau’s business practices?
Posted by Bellona on 04/07 | Link to This Item