Harper Gives $1B to Industrial Chemical Agriculture

This is a bastion of irreverent and irresponsible governance - why would the government contribute to and posit that free chemicals and inorganic fertilizers would help the agricultural buggery that has befallen our civilization. Where are the subsidies for non-industrial organic? Where are the financial foundations to create a clean, healthy, nutrient rich, ecologically beneficial realm of sustenance? Where are the benefits to those who practice local, trade-free, organic (real organic), healthy agriculture?

Nowhere.

Rather, following the lead of the USA departure from reason and overt corn subsidy, the Harper government follows suit and pleads to industrial voters.

I have been dismayed before, but never so openly has it hit me that the power is in the hands of the wrong people. Perhaps it never is, power should perhaps never be one persons own entity, but this government is the antitheses of social and civil change that needs to evolve our species into one that survives not by killing and controlling but by living symbiotically...as 'we' did hundreds of thousands of years ago...millions of years ago... . Nature does not need free chemicals on her back. Agricultural development and the availability of global food supplies does not need nitrogen fertilizers splattered on it.

It need nature.

The money will come in two chunks: $600 million will go toward setting up a
savings program where farmers and governments will contribute to accounts and
another $400 million will help farmers offset the rising costs of inputs like
fuel, fertilizer and chemicals. (CBC March 9, 2007)