The federal Farm Spending Bill has come under fire from all sides, but no one is hotter under the collar over some egregious inequities uncovered by a recent in depth study of where those dollars are going than environmentalists. At a time when developing green resources and farming methods is the world’s obvious way out of unhealthy consumption and chemical contamination of our food supply, it is astounding to learn that most of the money set aside for farm spending is not going to farmers who focus on healthy, clean, green crops.

That’s right, the reality is quite something else. Farms that are known to use dangerous contaminants and chemicals are the ones getting fat from this deal, and those are the same farms that supply subsidized food programs in schools and other institutions — the same places we expect our green experts of the future to rise from.  How can we as a nation expect the children in our public schools to become innovators and defenders of the environment when we can’t even feed them produce grown organically?  Our priorities are out of whack, as you will see in the infographic here:

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