i cant believe my eyes when it comes to this topic.

Great stuff, far more eloquent than my own meager attempts to articulate my feelings on this matter.

The bill’s sponsor denounces a shadowy libertarian conspiracy:

DeLauro says she has been told that the disinformation campaign “was a libertarian operation somewhere in the country, but we’re trying to figure it out.”

In the meantime, she sent a letter to all of her colleagues explaining what the bill does and is planning a more public campaign to clear the air. She has marshaled organic farming organizations in her defense.

So, we should be concerned that an unnamed “libertarian operation” is spreading disinformation about this bill. But, we should not be concerned that the chairwoman of the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee is “marshaling” farming organizations to defend her bill? I’m sure that by “marshaling” support, she means, “persuading through reasoned textual analysis,” rather than say, “making implied threats to reduce subsidies and aid to targeted groups of farmers”.

After all, those “libertarian operations” (I guess she means bloggers) have far more power to warp public opinion on agriculture than the congresswoman who controls federal appropriations for farm subsidies.

I write at Overlawyered about the (only too plausible) worries that it will make life untenable for many farmers and other small food producers. Meanwhile, at the Wall Street Journal (via Genova), Nathan Koppel looks at the current state of……